DuckDuckGo was down • Hacker News Board

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by SCdF » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

crobertsbmw wrote: post #22

They're back. So that lasted about 4 minutes..

still broken, and it was broken for me maybe 10 min ago, so the window is getting pretty long for something as critical as the competitor to google search..

Edit, and now it's back up for me, so ~15-20min of downtime from my perspective

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#42

Post by manquer » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

jackdecker wrote: post #9

All I know is that I would not want to be the one who had last committed to production.

Unlikely it is their logical app code , at this scale you likely will do canary releases or similar , failing for all users should be super rare

It perhaps is related to devops or the search index cache servers is broken

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by lenwood » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #4

I wonder if they have a status page?

I tried to find one. The closest I came is their Traffic dashboard [1], which is updated daily. I also checked their Twitter account [2] but no mention of problems yet.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/traffic [2]: https://twitter.com/duckduckgo

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by ajb » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

Oops, not fun. I think they must have been having problems for a while, I recently switched to try qwant because DDG was frequently slow to respond, but it was still working...

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#45

Post by mikekoscinski » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

Came here to say this. Still broken for me. "NPR" was last query.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#46

Post by tiborsaas » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

It looks ok to me:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=nothing&t=hk&ia=web

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#47

Post by hnitbanalns » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

HAPROXY 2.1.6 is broken for me after upgrading, had to roll back, maybe part of their stack?

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#48

Post by totaldude87 » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:43 PM UTC

wilfredk wrote: post #16

Has this ever happened with another large search engine?

nope, guess we are witnessing it

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#49

Post by partusman » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:44 PM UTC

raegis wrote: post #27

It still works if you're hungry: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=food&ia=recipes

Guess I'm not hungry, because nothing shows up for me.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

#50

Post by libeclipse » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 3:44 PM UTC

bearcherian wrote: post #35

Changing the time range to "Past Month" yields results

Can confirm.