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Spotify was down
- ianhanschen 5y agoWikipedia English also appears to be down.
- Symmetry 5y agoAnd Cloudflare maybe? They just announced they wouldn't be cutting off Russia which might have been the reason but I think the other services affected use Google Cloud?
- Jamie9912 5y agoCloudflare is working fine for me.. even Discord's CDN is behind it and working fine
- vpribish 5y agoworking for me
- kccoder 5y agoDiscord also appears to be down.
- Macha 5y agoReading between the lines on the discord one, it seems self inflicted. Seems they restarted a service which caused an outage of one feature to extend to a general API outage.
- TremendousJudge 5y agoand Twitter had issues a couple of hours ago. weird day, could this be some sort of attack? it's not like any cloud providers have reported issues afaik
- mwt 5y agoGoogle Cloud is reporting some oopsies
- TremendousJudge 5y agoAnd so is AWS, at least according to downdetector. It would be a bit of a very large coincidence for both to have issues at the same time
- grumple 5y agoUsually this points to something like a fiber cut or backbone misconfig. Sometimes it can also be a data center issue with some trickling effects on other parts of the network.
- brown9-2 5y agoof course https://status.cloud.google.com/ https://status.cloud.google.com/ is all green
- ben174 5y agoHah, expecting status pages to be honest.
- cableshaft 5y agoAzure DevOps is "Investigating a service disruption" right now as well.
- curiousgal 5y agoHopefully someone will get their downtime bingo!
- gatonegro 5y agoAnd this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.
- apetresc 5y agoThis is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?
- wilkystyle 5y agoWhile this particular scenario is quite rare (this is the first time I've been personally affected since starting my membership in 2013), I understand the parent commenter's sentiment. It was a little jarring to realize that all of my library's (and basically any on-demand) music was completely unavailable and at the mercy of this issue being resolved. Again, a temporary issue and one that happens quite infrequently, but if you already may have conflicting opinions on whether it's better to own or rent your music, this is certainly a valid point. edit: mobile typos
- engineeringwoke 5y agoI feel like it's really just a sort of existential dread about being reliant on anyone for anything, other than oneself. It's like being afraid that if there's a zombie apocalypse then you won't be able to listen to the same old songs on repeat like a scene out of I am Legend
- jwommack 5y agoWhat's the phrase? You'll own nothing and be happy.
- bob1029 5y agoTo be more generous, there are also many cases where more obscure music will start evaporating from your playlists. Some of us have serious problems with this kind of UX.
- _sword 5y agoIs GCP having an outage for both Spotify and Discord to be down?
- pm90 5y agoThis was my first guess as well since they're both pretty famous users of GCP. Next thing to check: Snap, Shopify, Macy's...
- heavenlyblue 5y agoSpotify decided to log out while on the flight :(
- DaGardner 5y agothis annoys me as well, why would the app decide to log me out, when it cannot connect to the backend? I have playlists downloaded for this exact reason...
- h1srf 5y agoI feel you. I’m about to board a flight and Spotify logged me out while I was listening to an offline playlist.
- jessaustin 5y agoIt logged you out while in "airplane mode"? How did it decide to do that? Genuinely curious, I don't use it but would have expected offline things to continue as they were while cut off from the rest of the network.
- _joel 5y agoWhat makes you think they were in Airplane mode?
- heavenlyblue 5y agoI was not in airplane mode, but we were 20k ft above ground. It logged me out about 40 minutes into the flight which makes 0 sense to me. To be fair to Spotify it never happened to me before. Maybe it’s their DRM that just locks you out if it can’t reach the server with a timeout of 1 hour or so (1 hour conditional on the last attempt being a failure).
- pfp 5y agoThere are disruptions in GPS signals in Eastern and Central Finland as well. [1] No prizes for guessing the most obvious culprit. [1] https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237 https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12348237
- fluidcruft 5y agoI'm not sure what you're suggesting. Russia doing something to disrupt GPS? NATO switching GPS to combat mode? What?
- fergbrain 5y agoNo, Russia is likely jamming GPS. It’s a somewhat frequent occurrence even before the war.
- fluidcruft 5y agoOk but what does any of this have to do with Spotify?
- pfp 5y agoIt's called hybrid warfare.
- 2000UltraDeluxe 5y agoAccording to Downdetector, there's a large amount of services that have outages at the moment: https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/ The graphs for Spotify and multiple other services look very similar, so Spotify being down might just be a part of something larger. Whether it's Russian hackers or some more mundane is pure speculation at this point.
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- jessaustin 5y agoThey did block RT... I wouldn't have expected any hackers to have cared too much about that, however.
- sublimefire 5y agoThe painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.
- fabrice_d 5y agoYou didn't buy these songs, so they won't let you enjoy them if you can't log in. What a wonderful world!
- manquer 5y agoWe rent our entertainment now, it won't be possible to own all the songs average listener consumes at $100-200/year outlay that streaming apps charge. The trade off for that very cheap renting model instead of owning it, is you can get kicked out anytime for any reason.
- julkali 5y agoI am under the impression that Spotify doesn't care a lot about UX in general. Inconsistencies in gesture handling, sessions still buggy after years, being logged out as soon as the API is unreachable, directly playing a song when opening a link, etc
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- fattless 5y agoThe inconsistencies bother me the most. I use it a lot while driving, and have to reach down to swipe the screen to skip a song. This is a pretty mindless, natural motion. Sometimes though (till I found out you can disable it) it would switch into car mode with no warning, meaning I need to look down, see the difference, and push the skip button with some precision, potentially dangerous. Why the car mode couldn’t use the swipes is beyond me, or why it exists in the first place. I’ve since turned that off but my frustration is now from the lyrics feature. It’s neat, and interesting in very specific scenarios, but I wish I could turn it off. A diagonal swipe brings it up, meaning I have to check it, swipe down, and then try again, too much for a previously thoughtless action. Yeah I don’t use it for its “intended purpose”, but these are little ux roadblocks that could improve others experiences. I don’t see why it can’t be slightly different.
- ng12 5y agoMy music is still streaming on speakers in the other room but I can't log in to pause it. Really annoying.
- sbierwagen 5y agoAh, our glorious sci-fi future.
- black_puppydog 5y agoA hammer will work as a non-temporary workaround. You're welcome. :)
- zekica 5y agoJust unplug it?
- conspire7777 5y ago
- heavymark 5y agoWas wondering why I was logged out all of the sudden.
- Jamie9912 5y agoIf anyone wants to download their Spotify playlist (actual rip) offline I found this tool very useful https://github.com/eviabs/downtify-premium https://github.com/eviabs/downtify-premium
- thehta 5y agoAny working cross-platform rippers that you know of?
- mucholove 5y agoOh good. Glad to know I'm not the only one :)
- shimmy568 5y agoSpotify is still working for me on their desktop app for the downloaded songs. Really weird that it logged everyone out on mobile...
- GnomeSaiyan 5y agoI got logged out from both mobile and desktop apps. Very frustrating.
- gatonegro 5y agoI got logged out from their website!
- chasd00 5y agoAWS is having problems, the two are probably related https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ EDIT: someone below mentioned Spotify is on GCP but Google appears to be having issues as well https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/ https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/
- bilekas 5y agoThis was my suspicion too, regardless aws issues will have a knock on effect with a lot of companies anyway.
- estensen 5y agoSpotify is on GCP
- tootie 5y agonytimes.com had a brief outage today as well
- vinhboy 5y agoMy RDS became unreachable for about 15 minutes.
- smoe 5y agoIs downdetector reliable at all? I feel every time something is down, a lot of unrelated sites also are reported as having problems. E.g. at the moment it reports AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloudflare and Facebook among others having issues.
- whyrusleeping 5y agodowndetector just uses search trends from google and twitter and other social apps, its definitely not checking if the site is 'down' on its own.
- hanniabu 5y agoHow do they know what people are searching? I've never seen an api for that
- bennyp101 5y agoMaybe the Apple event is taking all the bandwidth or they cut a deal to turn off everything else so you have to pay attention ;)
- fotta 5y agothe Apple event stream died at the same time for me...I'm guessing something involving network backbone (L3 maybe?)
- jthrowsitaway 5y agoLikely a joke, but I'm sure Apple events are barely a blip in the ocean of other Internet traffic.
- dainiusse 5y agoIt is DNS
- arpa 5y agodon't think so.
- sankalpshere 5y agoSpotify works on desktop for me for all songs. Logged out of all the mobile apps :(
- Ftuuky 5y agoPlaylist was all stored and cached in the phone and get logged out mid-track. Can't access it anywhere now.
- jgrahamc 5y agoIt's working for me in Portugal. Just played a song in the app. that I've never played before.
- jgrahamc 5y agoNot us.
- acqbu 5y agonow back up; it was horrible
- paulpauper 5y agoI want to listen to neil young! lol
- t_mann 5y agoSpotify, Discord, AWS - bets are on, do you think the timing is a coincidence or is Vlad's cyber offensive finally kicking into gear, two weeks in?
- rydgel 5y agoBoth Spotify and Discord are not on AWS
- t_mann 5y agoYet they're experiencing outages at the same time. If they don't share a platform then that actually makes it look less like a coincidence I'd say, no? (still not saying it means anything, maybe they have some joint dependencies that are down for completely unrelated reasons)
- derkades 5y agoPeople are falsely reporting, just look at how many comments on the downdetector cloudflare page are actually about Discord/Spotify.
- dijit 5y agoIs there a minor irony that they recently rejected me without an interview for an SRE role, despite matching 1:1 in my experience to the role they had open? I'm not bitter, but something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first.
- rkuykendall-com 5y ago> something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first Maybe I've only worked at bad companies, but this is the norm where I have been. Literally anything in your resume could have triggered someone to nix an interview. Interview culture is very "best of the best" in ways that make completely backwards sense.
- dijit 5y agoThat's worrying, but I am serious about matching experience 1:1 with the role that was presented. Perhaps they assume I'm overqualified, but that seems odd, especially in this climate.
- culopatin 5y agoPerhaps you’re not the only person who applied and they saw someone else first? You can’t take it personal when companies like that get thousands of resumes.
- dijit 5y agoI’m not taking it personal. I’m just shocked that they had so many great applicants when there are so many that are struggling to hire (including my company) that they wouldn't even have a phone screening interview. This is Sweden too, where the situation is a bit more dire w.r.t. engineers.
- gusfoo 5y agoA suspected BGP leak https://bgpstream.com/event/287678 https://bgpstream.com/event/287678 happened at 17:52 in the Netherlands. Downdetector (roughly) shows the graph start to spike around https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ https://downdetector.com/status/aws-amazon-web-services/ 17:55. Could be coincidence, of course.
- testplzignore 5y agoAssuming that there is a connection between the Discord and Spotify outages... The Discord status page ( https://discordstatus.com/ https://discordstatus.com/ ) says this: "We believe the cause is upstream of our service and our providers are working on determining and correcting the issue upstream." In my experience, vague blaming of upstream providers is either BGP or a cable cut.
- mellavora 5y agoAnyone familiar with nugs.net? https://www.nugs.net/about-us.html https://www.nugs.net/about-us.html They promise CD-quality downloads and streaming. Thinking of signing up. If I like it, I'll endorse it the next time a "spotify is problematic" story comes up on HN. Also, if you have a favorite spotify alternative, might be interesting to mention it here.
- gchokov 5y agoEast Europe, no downtime, I was listing during the whole time. I often wonder, how can Spotify be so-fricking-fast and reliable.
- mdrzn 5y agoAnd now that it's up and I can login, all the playlists and music are gone. Looks like a fresh new account. Seems like they still have some issues..