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Perhaps. Our outlook mail failed today. They said its back, but its still kind of flaky.
Yep, my Outlook mail for work is being flaky. I get notifications of new messages but can’t read the messages (mobile)
Although neither title is in the hyperlinked-to pages, the title here is answered by the title at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36202624 .
There’s a saying on HN: major outages often come from DNS. It was also DNS in the recent WhatsApp outage thread. I’m wondering what the source of the possible broader internet slowness is.
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It could be both? A wider outage at a high traffic time. HN is timing out constantly for me. So are some Microsoft services. But then some other websites are loading fine...
HN timeouts only applied while logged in with me
I know HN is getting hugged right now, but many other websites on mobile and landline internet (in the southern US) are chugging for me. A conspicuous number of services are showing outages on downdetector and thousandeyes.
Is HN struggling so much due to the Apple event or is there another explanation?
Major perf improvements are coming (fingers crossed), but alas not yet. Sorry all!
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Is HN struggling so much due to the Apple event or is there another explanation?
> "is there another explanation?" It's aliens. They literally announced they have been reverse engineering space ships from aliens from outer space. I mean I don't think it's true but it's what they announced.
I don't know if this was related, but earlier today my personal internet dropped to 1mbps down for at least 30 minutes. Also had 40% packet loss using the cloudflare speed test on a wired connection. East coast, USA.
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> "is there another explanation?" It's aliens. They literally announced they have been reverse engineering space ships from aliens from outer space. I mean I don't think it's true but it's what they announced.
After I read your comment, I googled. No one official announced anything. Instead an "insider" claims this. Among the claims, is that aliens are working with governements, and provided key tech, such as fiber optics, and silicon chips. Yeah. OK. I can literay, over a century, trace all the key scientific discoveries, how they happened, for transistors, ICs, etc. There was no help. And shining light through glass isn'…
