Instagram is Down [Updated] 69

Posted by msmash on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:02PM from the it's-down dept.

According to thousands of users, Instagram website and app are facing technical issues. Users attempting to visit the website are seeing a "5xx Server Error", while on the app, they are getting "Couldn't refresh feed." According to DownDetector, a service which monitors outages on the web, more than 2,000 people have reported issues with Facebook-owned Instagram in the last 10 minutes. Update: As of 19:20 GMT, Instagram appears to have resolved the issue.

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Is this the end? (Score:5, Insightful)

by Ecuador ( 740021 ) writes: on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:04PM (#56942744) Homepage

Is this the end of civilization as we know it?
Seriously, can we can we have any lower quality posts here, we are half-trying to hit bottom currently, let's go all the way.

- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by Anonymous Coward writes:
  
  Elon Musk claims Instagram is down
  Apple Announces new Instagram Keyboard with less clicky clack
  Facebook denies claims that instagram is down
  Apple Announces new Instagram Keyboard with softer touchy touch
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) writes:
  
  Ding Dong the Witch is dead,
  Which old Witch?
  The Wicked Witch
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by jellomizer ( 103300 ) writes:
  
  No but it shows how the internet has gravitated towards a few large sites for its content, where an outage affects many people.
  - Re: Is this the end? (Score:2)
    
    by Zero__Kelvin ( 151819 ) writes:
    
    2000 people is essentially nobody at internet scale.
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      by harperska ( 1376103 ) writes:
      
      2k isn't the number of people affected. It's the number of people who reported it. I would guess that the number of people who report an outage are a tiny fraction of the number affected. I casually use Instagram. I noticed it was down when I tried to browse it. I didn't report it to anybody because I figured Richmond was already working on rebooting the servers by that time, and my reporting of the issue would only add to noise. It turns out I was correct, and the service did manage to come back up despite
      - Re: Is this the end? (Score:2)
        
        by Zero__Kelvin ( 151819 ) writes:
        
        No shit Sherlock
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        by Aighearach ( 97333 ) writes:
        
        Maybe the rest of them merely knew about it, but were not significantly affected?
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  by Richard Dick Head ( 803293 ) writes:
  
  I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of thots [knowyourmeme.com] and snowflakes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
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  by Aighearach ( 97333 ) writes:
  
  Is this the end of civilization as we know it?
  Are we there yet?
  What about now?
  Are you sure?
  Maybe we should stop and ask for directions, I was sure we were passing through it about this time last year.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) writes:
  
  can we can we
  yes, we can.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by LinuxIsGarbage ( 1658307 ) writes:
  
  I'm not surprised that Slashdot posted this, but rather that they didn't wait 6 weeks, and only posted it once.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Timothy Hartman ( 2905293 ) writes:
  
  It was probably directly related to the Slashdot effect with its droves of viewers hitting it simultaneously.
  - Re: (Score:3)
    
    by Known Nutter ( 988758 ) writes:
    
    The "Slashdot effect" hasn't been a thing in years.
    - Re: (Score:2)
      
      by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) writes:
      
      Yeah, everybody has upgraded their servers since.
Meanwhile... (Score:2)

by cre1mer ( 5440320 ) writes:

Instagram models are weeping in the streets.
- Re: (Score:1)
  
  by Robert Goatse ( 984232 ) writes:
  
  and every high school kid. Maybe they can discover, oh I don't know, the outdoors?!
  - Re: (Score:2)
    
    by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) writes:
    
    Plenty of pictures of the outdoors on Instagram
  - Re: (Score:2)
    
    by Aighearach ( 97333 ) writes:
    
    You might have been too busy playing with your goats to notice all the people in the news dying falling off cliffs while taking selfies?!
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by jetkust ( 596906 ) writes:
  
  It's sort of like snapface and instachat but not quite as good.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) writes:
  
  Pictures or it didn't happen....
  Sure here you go: https://instagram.com/fakeinst... [instagram.com]
- Re: Pictures? (Score:2)
  
  by Zero__Kelvin ( 151819 ) writes:
  
  In this case a lack of pictures is proof it didn't happen.
Was it due to Amazon routers? (Score:2, Insightful)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

You get what you paid for.

—Cisco sales rep.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) writes:
  
  So you say that Amazon is not as reliable as your own made infrastructure? Doubt that.
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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:

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- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by JoeDuncan ( 874519 ) writes:
  
  Rite?
Hopefully (Score:1)

by sheph ( 955019 ) writes:

Hopefully it's down for good.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Oswald McWeany ( 2428506 ) writes:
  
  Hopefully it's down for good.
  If it were something physical rather than a web site I'd kick it whilst it were down.
slashdotted (Score:1)

by Anonymous Coward writes:

come on man, I almost had it back up and now you are slashdotting me.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Aighearach ( 97333 ) writes:
  
  I always suspected instragram was just a raspberry pi in a basement somewhere.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by hcs_$reboot ( 1536101 ) writes:
  
  "slashdotted"? Didn't hear that for a long time.
Are you sure? (Score:2)

by JoeDuncan ( 874519 ) writes:

I can access it just fine...
Probably just a switch or subnet issue
Good (Score:4, Funny)

by sproketboy ( 608031 ) writes: on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:16PM (#56942856)

Stay Down!

Nobody sane gives a shit. (Score:4, Informative)

by iCEBaLM ( 34905 ) writes: on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:18PM (#56942870)

(n/t)

Oh, what a day (Score:2)

by Artem S. Tashkinov ( 764309 ) writes:

What a lovely day!!
P.S. I'm not an Instagram user and I don't endorse this website.
Obligatory "and nothing of value was lost" (Score:2)

by Revek ( 133289 ) writes:

I stopped at facebook. I am not interested these methods of communication. Often its just garbage on top of garbage. I haven't logged in to facebook this year. Somehow all the people I want to know and communicate with are still accessible to me.
Slashdot (Score:4, Insightful)

by cascadingstylesheet ( 140919 ) writes: on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:36PM (#56943018) Journal

Slashdot 2018: outage notices and political pieces.
I suppose those are for a certain kind of "nerd" ...

- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by Thelasko ( 1196535 ) writes:
  
  Everything is political now. Welcome to 2018.
/. Journalism at its finest. (Score:2)

by fahrbot-bot ( 874524 ) writes:

Instagram is Down
Instagram is down.
Instagram is Down [Updated]
Instagram is back up
[a] Why is this a story? and [b] (sigh)
- In related news.. (Score:2)
  
  by PPH ( 736903 ) writes:
  
  Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
- Re: Finally (Score:2)
  
  by Zero__Kelvin ( 151819 ) writes:
  
  You also wouldn't see them anyway. What do you think Instagram does? Do you think they slip images in to your slashdot session when you aren't looking?
and (Score:2)

by thomn8r ( 635504 ) writes:

... nothing of value was lost
Oh no! (Score:2)

by ilsaloving ( 1534307 ) writes:

How will I see what people ate for lunch?
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by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Friday July 13, 2018 @04:18PM (#56943772)

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Insta (Score:2)

by dohzer ( 867770 ) writes:

Instagram is like a slightly different version of Facebook, right?
Hmm! (Score:2)

by antdude ( 79039 ) writes:

Is that why my earlier comments vanished from iOS app? :/

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