They seem to have fixed it by removing the "popular petitions" section from the home page.
I guess it's possible that there are no popular petitions in the last hour because of the outage.
UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
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#12These petitions are almost always met with a boilerplate response. There was a recent one (which I can't find as the site's currently down) regarding Russian interference in the last UK election, with the government response being along the lines of "we don't know what you're talking about, move on". More on that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover... While the huge number of signings o…
I think mostly everyone signing this knows this. But it’s not as though we’ve been listened to in any way.
I like the summary of @bootstrapcool on Twitter: “God knows we've tried everything else.[...] A brief use of collective impotent fury and a tiny squeak into the black holes of our futures, but it's something.”
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#13lets base our decisions and policies on internet polls. it's 2019 yolo
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#14BBC Coverage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-47652071
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#15These petitions are almost always met with a boilerplate response. There was a recent one (which I can't find as the site's currently down) regarding Russian interference in the last UK election, with the government response being along the lines of "we don't know what you're talking about, move on". More on that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover... While the huge number of signings o…
I think mostly everyone signing this knows this. But it’s not as though we’ve been listened to in any way. I like the summary of @bootstrapcool on Twitter: “God knows we've tried everything else.[...] A brief use of collective impotent fury and a tiny squeak into the black holes of our futures, but it's something.”
Absolutely. I'm not positive about the outcome but I wouldn't berate people for trying, hence my comment "I can only hope that the pressure exerted from various angles (petition, march, sane MPs) will result in Parliament revoking Article 50". I've signed it myself!
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#16lets base our decisions and policies on internet polls. it's 2019 yolo
Well that's how this whole thing started, minus the internet part..
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#17Hey, that's my tweet!
At the time it went down, I was seeing 2k signups a minute and rising. I was just thinking how the load handling was impressive when poof it was down.
Back now, though, which is also pretty good. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
UPDATE: It's down again. 502 bad gateway. I was seeing close to 3k signups a minute when it fell over this time.
UPDATE 2: Seems to be back? Clearly unstable though with these load levels.
Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#18These petitions are almost always met with a boilerplate response. There was a recent one (which I can't find as the site's currently down) regarding Russian interference in the last UK election, with the government response being along the lines of "we don't know what you're talking about, move on". More on that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover... While the huge number of signings o…
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#19Re: UK Parliament petitions site crashes under traffic for petition to cancel Brexit
#20These petitions are almost always met with a boilerplate response. There was a recent one (which I can't find as the site's currently down) regarding Russian interference in the last UK election, with the government response being along the lines of "we don't know what you're talking about, move on". More on that here: https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/b2vmm0/gover... While the huge number of signings o…
The Brexiteers had won when they successfully framed Brexit as "the will of the 17M". Remainers didn't counter-frame this with "50M didn't vote for Brexit".
Therefor all the marches, petitions etc. are always/can be ignored in the context of "but the will of the 17M".
"Don't Think of an Elephant!" is now such an old book, and still a lot of people haven't read it. Brexiteers have read it it seems.