And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.
Yup. I turned on the record player instead. I'm glad I still have a dumb machine I can fall back on when all of the technology fails.
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#62Maybe the Apple event is taking all the bandwidth or they cut a deal to turn off everything else so you have to pay attention ;)
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#63My music is still streaming on speakers in the other room but I can't log in to pause it. Really annoying.
Ah, our glorious sci-fi future.
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#64Discord also appears to be down.
Reading between the lines on the discord one, it seems self inflicted. Seems they restarted a service which caused an outage of one feature to extend to a general API outage.
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#65It is DNS
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#66AWS is having problems, the two are probably related https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ EDIT: someone below mentioned Spotify is on GCP but Google appears to be having issues as well https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
This was my suspicion too, regardless aws issues will have a knock on effect with a lot of companies anyway.
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#68Spotify works on desktop for me for all songs. Logged out of all the mobile apps :(
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#69The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.
I am under the impression that Spotify doesn't care a lot about UX in general. Inconsistencies in gesture handling, sessions still buggy after years, being logged out as soon as the API is unreachable, directly playing a song when opening a link, etc
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#70The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.
I am under the impression that Spotify doesn't care a lot about UX in general. Inconsistencies in gesture handling, sessions still buggy after years, being logged out as soon as the API is unreachable, directly playing a song when opening a link, etc
The inconsistencies bother me the most.
I use it a lot while driving, and have to reach down to swipe the screen to skip a song. This is a pretty mindless, natural motion. Sometimes though (till I found out you can disable it) it would switch into car mode with no warning, meaning I need to look down, see the difference, and push the skip button with some precision, potentially dangerous. Why the car mode couldn’t use the swipes is beyond me, or why it exists in the first place.
I’ve since turned that off but my frustration is now from the lyrics feature. It’s neat, and interesting in very specific scenarios, but I wish I could turn it off. A diagonal swipe brings it up, meaning I have to check it, swipe down, and then try again, too much for a previously thoughtless action.
Yeah I don’t use it for its “intended purpose”, but these are little ux roadblocks that could improve others experiences. I don’t see why it can’t be slightly different.