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Stack Overflow Is Down

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Post by scbenet » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:08 PM UTC

Stack Overflow Is Down
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#2

Post by scbenet » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:08 PM UTC

Is anyone else unable to access stack overflow? I'm getting a black page and an HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" response code

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Post by yawnxyz » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:09 PM UTC

Mostly the only way to prevent AI bots from scraping your website nowadays

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Post by scbenet » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:13 PM UTC

scbenet wrote: post #2

Is anyone else unable to access stack overflow? I'm getting a black page and an HTTP 418 "I'm a teapot" response code

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Post by sherdil2022 » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:14 PM UTC

They were migrating to GCP, IIRC. Not sure if this outage is related to that

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Post by thanzex » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:16 PM UTC

Even the statuspage is dead https://www.stackstatus.net/

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Post by nazgulsenpai » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:32 PM UTC

Seems like it's working sporadically at the moment. The status page worked with one refresh, but the next one error 500.

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Post by scbenet » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:36 PM UTC

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Post by donperignon » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 3:53 PM UTC

Something like this used to be in the front page of this page and heavily commented. The fact that happens without notice is a testament of how bad SO is nowadays and how LLM has eaten that piece of pie completely.

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Post by watusername » Wed, Apr 02, 2025, 5:07 PM UTC

Seems to be back up. Incident page: https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/e380b9bc-9ed2-4672-80e...

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