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All Telegram servers are down

105 points by erohead 6y ago

mappu 6y ago
(Seems fine now.)
- theon144 6y ago
  The web does, but I still can't connect on any device.
- stefanilie 6y ago
  Uk clients not working. Haven’t tested web though...
  - yur3i__ 6y ago
    I'm fine in the UK now
ufmace 6y ago
Localized outage? Everything's working fine for me, has been all day.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
  - FriendlyNormie 6y ago
    Thanks for your brilliant insight and for turning this place into reddit one terrible comment at a time.
heimatau 6y ago
They are not down [1]. But it does look like a lot of Europe is affected [2] and if you stay on that page. It looks like the attack is growing. Top hits are "Ukraine, Germany, Russia". Also, the OP link provides ZERO information on the claim. Mods could use my [2] link for the OP link. As it does seem to be happening. [1] - https://twitter.com/telegram/with_replies https://twitter.com/telegram/with_replies [2] - https://outage.report/telegram https://outage.report/telegram Edited: for formatting and there does seem to be an attack growing. I also petition the mods to update the link to something more informative.
- toyg 6y ago
  Some of the comments on your second link say their VPN is also down. I wonder if it's some outage in a popular datacentre or backbone.
inglor_cz 6y ago
This is an interesting practical exercise. We generally expect our Web services to be available all the time. What else broke down due to Telegram being offline? Are there any fallbacks?
bunkerbewohner 6y ago
Has been down for me in Berlin, Germany, for an hour or so. Trying to log in via web gives me this error: Method: auth.sendCode Result: {"_":"rpc_error","error_code":420,"error_message":"FLOOD_WAIT_438"} Maybe a localized DDoS attack?
- lucb1e 6y ago
  (Username) Do you really live in a bunker?
  - bunkerbewohner 6y ago
    No, sadly I do not.
- hoppla 6y ago
  420? Not a http status code I know of
  - pacificmint 6y ago
    Twitter apparently returns a “420 Enhance your calm” error when you exceed their rate limiting. It’s not an official http code, though.
MattGaiser 6y ago
Is there a reason this is on the front page other than for it being seemingly down? There is no information in the link. I am scratching my head as to why we are all gathered here. What am I missing? Maybe I am just too used to software outages?
- asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
  There's a front page story every time google, apple or Amazon are down. I'm not sure telegram warrants the same publicity but it doesn't seem completely inappropriate.
  - lolinder 6y ago
    The question is, why is the link to telegram's homepage? It's not down, and has 0 information on what is happening.
    - asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
      Maybe someone is doing a social experiment to see how many HNers read before voting?
  - MattGaiser 6y ago
    Usually that at least comes with a status page or a news article about the impact or something. This just links the product.
  - kelnos 6y ago
    I've honestly never understood why these sorts of posts (even for those larger companies with services everyone relies on) get so much traction on HN. I can very easily tell for myself when a site is down, and it's not hard to find most companies' service status page. Sure, if a few days later we get an interesting/detailed post-mortem from the company, I'd find that interesting, but "X is down" does not tickle me intellectually at all, and just wastes a slot on the front page. The inevitable speculation as to whether it was a bad deploy, a bad configuration update, a DDoS attack, whatever, is just not really interesting, though I guess (IMO unfortunately) enough people here find it interesting. Of course, I'm here commenting, so somehow I got enticed to click through to the comments, so who knows what that says about me...
sleepyK 6y ago
Hmmmm they're not ALL down. Working just fine for me in India and my friends in the US.
desman 6y ago
After ~30 minutes of "connecting..." I restarted Telegram (Linux app), won't log me in, says "Too many tries, please try again later". Hope they'll reset try counters when they are back online. I appreciate Telegram's latest features and understand that stuff happens when you change things... hope they'll fix it soon.
snigga420 6y ago
Doesn't work on Android, however Desktop App seems unaffected. Germany btw
gok 6y ago
How am I supposed to buy my drugs now?!
- bluu00 6y ago
  - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusive-idUSKCN1VK2NI https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusi... - https://www.gatewayhouse.in/telegram-protests/ https://www.gatewayhouse.in/telegram-protests/
OpticalWindows 6y ago
Who uses Telegram?
- robjan 6y ago
  Hundreds of millions of people, currently growing by 10 million per week.
toyg 6y ago
In UK atm, there was a markedly slow startup / refresh but looks like it's working (well, i guess - all my contacts are asleep, lol).
joshxyz 6y ago
me finding this thread from https://t.me/news_ycombinator https://t.me/news_ycombinator ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

105 points by erohead 6y ago

mappu 6y ago

(Seems fine now.)

theon144 6y ago
The web does, but I still can't connect on any device.
stefanilie 6y ago
Uk clients not working. Haven’t tested web though...
- yur3i__ 6y ago
  I'm fine in the UK now

ufmace 6y ago

Localized outage? Everything's working fine for me, has been all day.

deleted 6y ago
[deleted]
- FriendlyNormie 6y ago
  Thanks for your brilliant insight and for turning this place into reddit one terrible comment at a time.

heimatau 6y ago

They are not down [1]. But it does look like a lot of Europe is affected [2] and if you stay on that page. It looks like the attack is growing. Top hits are "Ukraine, Germany, Russia". Also, the OP link provides ZERO information on the claim. Mods could use my [2] link for the OP link. As it does seem to be happening. [1] - https://twitter.com/telegram/with_replies https://twitter.com/telegram/with_replies [2] - https://outage.report/telegram https://outage.report/telegram Edited: for formatting and there does seem to be an attack growing. I also petition the mods to update the link to something more informative.

toyg 6y ago
Some of the comments on your second link say their VPN is also down. I wonder if it's some outage in a popular datacentre or backbone.

inglor_cz 6y ago

This is an interesting practical exercise. We generally expect our Web services to be available all the time. What else broke down due to Telegram being offline? Are there any fallbacks?

bunkerbewohner 6y ago

Has been down for me in Berlin, Germany, for an hour or so. Trying to log in via web gives me this error: Method: auth.sendCode Result: {"_":"rpc_error","error_code":420,"error_message":"FLOOD_WAIT_438"} Maybe a localized DDoS attack?

lucb1e 6y ago
(Username) Do you really live in a bunker?
- bunkerbewohner 6y ago
  No, sadly I do not.
hoppla 6y ago
420? Not a http status code I know of
- pacificmint 6y ago
  Twitter apparently returns a “420 Enhance your calm” error when you exceed their rate limiting. It’s not an official http code, though.

MattGaiser 6y ago

Is there a reason this is on the front page other than for it being seemingly down? There is no information in the link. I am scratching my head as to why we are all gathered here. What am I missing? Maybe I am just too used to software outages?

asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
There's a front page story every time google, apple or Amazon are down. I'm not sure telegram warrants the same publicity but it doesn't seem completely inappropriate.
- lolinder 6y ago
  The question is, why is the link to telegram's homepage? It's not down, and has 0 information on what is happening.
  - asdfasgasdgasdg 6y ago
    Maybe someone is doing a social experiment to see how many HNers read before voting?
- MattGaiser 6y ago
  Usually that at least comes with a status page or a news article about the impact or something. This just links the product.
- kelnos 6y ago
  I've honestly never understood why these sorts of posts (even for those larger companies with services everyone relies on) get so much traction on HN. I can very easily tell for myself when a site is down, and it's not hard to find most companies' service status page. Sure, if a few days later we get an interesting/detailed post-mortem from the company, I'd find that interesting, but "X is down" does not tickle me intellectually at all, and just wastes a slot on the front page. The inevitable speculation as to whether it was a bad deploy, a bad configuration update, a DDoS attack, whatever, is just not really interesting, though I guess (IMO unfortunately) enough people here find it interesting. Of course, I'm here commenting, so somehow I got enticed to click through to the comments, so who knows what that says about me...

sleepyK 6y ago

Hmmmm they're not ALL down. Working just fine for me in India and my friends in the US.

desman 6y ago

After ~30 minutes of "connecting..." I restarted Telegram (Linux app), won't log me in, says "Too many tries, please try again later". Hope they'll reset try counters when they are back online. I appreciate Telegram's latest features and understand that stuff happens when you change things... hope they'll fix it soon.

snigga420 6y ago

Doesn't work on Android, however Desktop App seems unaffected. Germany btw

gok 6y ago

How am I supposed to buy my drugs now?!

bluu00 6y ago
- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusive-idUSKCN1VK2NI https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-telegram-exclusi... - https://www.gatewayhouse.in/telegram-protests/ https://www.gatewayhouse.in/telegram-protests/

OpticalWindows 6y ago

Who uses Telegram?

robjan 6y ago
Hundreds of millions of people, currently growing by 10 million per week.

toyg 6y ago

In UK atm, there was a markedly slow startup / refresh but looks like it's working (well, i guess - all my contacts are asleep, lol).

joshxyz 6y ago

me finding this thread from https://t.me/news_ycombinator https://t.me/news_ycombinator ¯\_(ツ)_/¯