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X.com Is Down
- kvetching 2y agoIt is suffering from DDOS attack. People are already politicizing it trying to blame Iran.
- jmondi 2y agoDefinitely has nothing to do with axing the staff
- theultdev 2y agocorrect. because twitter 1.0 went down constantly. and staff has been axed for awhile. ddos happens, having a large staff isn't really relevant.
- senojsitruc 2y agoDon't be making a mess in the HN echo chamber!
- rco8786 2y agoeh twitter 1.0 was 10+ years ago. twitter more recently had been extremely stable. (source: was on the platform eng team for years)
- resize2996 2y agoquality is relevant
- theultdev 2y agoelaborate.
- seabird 2y agoThe site has performed more or less the same after the staff cuts as it did before. I say this as somebody who has used it nearly daily for ten-ish years now. Most users I know have the same experience. Maybe you noticed something if you're parked on Twitter for hours at a time, but I try to limit my exposure to people that do that. I get that Musk is a dipshit and that there are other problems with the site since the change of ownership, but the griping about stability seems to come from people that don't actually use it.
- FirmwareBurner 2y ago[flagged]
- consp 2y agoIt's becomming slower and slower over time. Feeds often don't load properly. Refresh only works properly manually since the feed often disconnects. Dragscroll (or whoever it is called when you press a button and you can scroll by dragging the mouse up/down) is broken and results in 100% cpu load and a stalled site until you cancel it. But these are just my annoyances, maybe it's just me. I'm switching it out for alternatives as much as possible anyway. And as a bonus there is rampant racism and hate.
- stefcoetzee 2y ago[flagged]
- stefcoetzee 2y ago"There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against . We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. Either a large, coordinated group and/or a country is involved." https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1899149509407473825
- PKop 2y ago"The site has been unreachable for more than 80 days."
- josefritzishere 2y agoDark Storm has taken credit... at least that's what Newsweek says. https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-updates-2042333 https://www.newsweek.com/x-twitter-outage-dark-storm-live-up...
- underseacables 2y agoWow. They really did a number. Really destroyed everything. It took X like 30 minutes! to restore function.
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- ohgr 2y agoWhat microservice did Musk delete this time?
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- ta1243 2y agoAnd nothing of value was lost
- Clubber 2y agoPavlov rang his bell to the comment section. :)
- sshine 2y ago[flagged]
- ta1243 2y agoLooks like twitter is blocking isitdownrightnow based on the "this is down for 80 days"
- Kkoala 2y agoGood time to consider and try out alternatives! Such as Bluesky
- __rito__ 2y agoIs Bluesky good enough and dense enough if I block all political keywords? X is good enough for me after muting all political keywords. There was a link recently to a site that lists all top links on Bluesky and overwhelmingly all were about US politics.
- kalupa 2y agoIt has great support for blocking yes. In fact, there are curated and/or crowdsourced block lists that one can subscribe to so you don’t have to spend as much time doing it yourself. I am sure there’s one that’s suitable for your needs but I don’t have any to recommend
- underseacables 2y ago..you can do that?! I've been dreaming of the ability to block certain words and phrases from Twitter. Blue sky is too chaotic for me… I'm OK sticking with Twitter so long as I can block words and phrases.
- kawfey 2y agoor mastodon. or threads. or <anme your platform here>... I hate that the short-text social media world got so fragmented. Twitter was the one place i could go to say hi to my neighbors, complain to a company and get recompense, grow my hobbies with friends, ask almost any restaurant "are you open on $holiday?" and just watch the whole world breathe.
- lokimedes 2y agoGovernment infrastructure under attack, Musk is demanding nuclear retaliation as we speak. (Misinformation disclaimer :: Joke)
- postepowanieadm 2y agoI'm not sure if you are joking or serious. Interesting times.
- Havoc 2y agoI guess they did need that datacenter that musk decided to DIY remove after all
- numpad0 2y agothis is minimum 6th dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43322115
- k2_dev 2y agoDoes anyone know yet, if this was really a cyberattack? And if so, how the hackers were able to pull this off? Was it a DDOS-Attack?