51 points | by DetectDefect 3 hours ago
12 comments
Fun to be on call December 24th.
Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app. Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth too
Maybe that is why is down.
On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.
It’s Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting crushed.
Good hunting.
Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though!
Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.
Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
Yeah but I couldn't find an empty socket so just unplugged a few other things. It works now.
The Christmas lights I mean.
> There have been 160,000 page views on this site in the past hour, this indicates an issue with Steam.
Number of page views on a "is it down" page is not necessarily indicative of a problem. Not being able to connect to the service in question is.
And more people turning up at the clinic doesn’t mean there are more sick people, but it’s an indication.
Funny that you ignored “indicates,” which is a perfectly valid inference here, and also it’s true.
If you want to be pedant, don’t self-own.
People visit these sites when they have problems. A large number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with an issue with the service.
I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict here.
Fun to be on call December 24th.
Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app. Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth too
Maybe that is why is down.
On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.
It’s Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting crushed.
Good hunting.
Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though!
Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.
Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
Yeah but I couldn't find an empty socket so just unplugged a few other things. It works now.
The Christmas lights I mean.
> There have been 160,000 page views on this site in the past hour, this indicates an issue with Steam.
Number of page views on a "is it down" page is not necessarily indicative of a problem. Not being able to connect to the service in question is.
And more people turning up at the clinic doesn’t mean there are more sick people, but it’s an indication.
Funny that you ignored “indicates,” which is a perfectly valid inference here, and also it’s true.
If you want to be pedant, don’t self-own.
People visit these sites when they have problems. A large number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with an issue with the service.
I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict here.