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Tell HN: Paypal APIs are Down

30 points by jasonlbaptiste 17y ago

bioinformatics 17y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739856 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739856
- jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
  yeah, probably better to link directly to paypal's dev communication than a techcrunch post on this one.
jokull 17y ago
reddit down as well or just me?
- cookiecaper 17y ago
  It seems to be having issues, yeah. Spottiness.
keltex 17y ago
Terrible that they didn't notify us via email or something. I saw a bunch of declines come through and customer complaints before I had to search the web to find out what was happening.
- zhyder 17y ago
  The Authorize.net downtime a few weeks ago was just as bad if not worse. They didn't even send an update+apology after things came back up. Terrible customer service.
  - lzell 17y ago
    Thank you for posting this. After today's incident I was 100% certain I was going to switch to Authorize.net. Why did both companies not send out notification emails!? Doesn't seem like too much to ask.
    - chops 17y ago
      Auth.net did have a twitter account where they were keeping everyone posted on the progress.
agotterer 17y ago
Seeing a few PayPal checkout failures in our log. Wonder how many didnt even make it to the blog. Authorize and PayPal outages all in a few weeks. Bad for business! Blog says they are currently experiencing 10s delays on the API. Blog took like 20 seconds to come up for me.
blasdel 17y ago
It's not just the APIs -- ALL OF PAYPAL has been down intermittently all morning, especially authentication. From about 10:40 to 11:40 they went as far as turning paypal.com into a static page with just this on it: We're sprucing things up right now, but we should be done by 11:20 AM PDT. Want the details? Checkout the PayPal Announcement Board. http://announcements.paypal.com/us/
brown9-2 17y ago
Remember when Google had an outage with App Engine a few weeks ago and afterwards, once it was resolved, they published a lengthy and detailed technical post-mortem on what wrong and how they were planning to fix it to prevent the same type of problem in the future? Paypal is a service that people pay for too. Where is their post-mortem?

bioinformatics 17y ago

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739856 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=739856

jasonlbaptiste 17y ago
yeah, probably better to link directly to paypal's dev communication than a techcrunch post on this one.

jokull 17y ago

reddit down as well or just me?

cookiecaper 17y ago
It seems to be having issues, yeah. Spottiness.

keltex 17y ago

Terrible that they didn't notify us via email or something. I saw a bunch of declines come through and customer complaints before I had to search the web to find out what was happening.

zhyder 17y ago
The Authorize.net downtime a few weeks ago was just as bad if not worse. They didn't even send an update+apology after things came back up. Terrible customer service.
- lzell 17y ago
  Thank you for posting this. After today's incident I was 100% certain I was going to switch to Authorize.net. Why did both companies not send out notification emails!? Doesn't seem like too much to ask.
  - chops 17y ago
    Auth.net did have a twitter account where they were keeping everyone posted on the progress.

agotterer 17y ago

Seeing a few PayPal checkout failures in our log. Wonder how many didnt even make it to the blog. Authorize and PayPal outages all in a few weeks. Bad for business! Blog says they are currently experiencing 10s delays on the API. Blog took like 20 seconds to come up for me.

blasdel 17y ago

It's not just the APIs -- ALL OF PAYPAL has been down intermittently all morning, especially authentication. From about 10:40 to 11:40 they went as far as turning paypal.com into a static page with just this on it: We're sprucing things up right now, but we should be done by 11:20 AM PDT. Want the details? Checkout the PayPal Announcement Board. http://announcements.paypal.com/us/

brown9-2 17y ago

Remember when Google had an outage with App Engine a few weeks ago and afterwards, once it was resolved, they published a lengthy and detailed technical post-mortem on what wrong and how they were planning to fix it to prevent the same type of problem in the future? Paypal is a service that people pay for too. Where is their post-mortem?