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December 19, 2006

Digg Has Hiccups - Site Down for Nearly Two Hours

Michael Arrington

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The changes at Digg today must have put a strain on the ol’ servers. The site has been down for nearly two hours as of 2 am PST. In the meantime, the Digg staff recommends a number of links to keep readers busy. We’ll keep reporting these outages until they add TechCrunch to the list.

Digg this story. (oh wait, you can’t)

  • Sphere It

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  1. Darren Stuart

    December 19th, 2006 at 2:22 am

    not suprised, I noticed a lot of sections on the site like the terms etc down when i was digging around.

  2. Timmy

    December 19th, 2006 at 2:42 am

    Seems like they’re having trouble with their submit podcast too.

  3. charbar

    December 19th, 2006 at 2:48 am

    Let’s see…the main problem with digg is that’s it’s slower than a 90 year old granny. OK devs, what should our first priority be? How about we release more server straining features before we fix the first problem?

  4. jean

    December 19th, 2006 at 2:54 am

    yes its down for more than 3 hours i have been watching. and check this link for what the message was

    http://irintech.com/x1/blogarchive.php?id=592

  5. SearcH Engines WeB

    December 19th, 2006 at 2:55 am

    Digg this story. (oh wait, you can’t)

    Oh yes you can Digg it - it went back up - just as Web 2.0 as ever.

    But you’re right, they are really hyped about the new features

    http://digg.com/tech_news/Digg.....with_Video

  6. Josh

    December 19th, 2006 at 3:07 am

    The fact that they recommend They Might Be Giants makes any downtime forgivable. Digg has always been painfully slow for me (that’s probably more the fault of Cox than Digg… my how I dislike Cox). Here’s hoping downtime is due to moving to faster servers.

  7. Ex TechCrunch UK Fan

    December 19th, 2006 at 3:08 am

    Wow - for that sort of performance someone should really get fired - any tips on this Mike?

  8. Matt Brian

    December 19th, 2006 at 4:05 am

    I noticed the front page was down yet I was able to browse the Podcasts and view individual stories I previously had the URL’s to.

  9. erik

    December 19th, 2006 at 4:15 am

    You can actually access the site at http://digg.com/news and from there use the whole site its just the front http://digg.com thats inaccessible.

  10. Ali

    December 19th, 2006 at 4:17 am

    Get rid of the snap thingy pweese?

  11. Michael Arrington

    December 19th, 2006 at 4:21 am

    Ali - I love it. Ok, I didn’t love it for a couple of days, but I find that I am using it all the time now to preview stuff. Does it really bother you?

  12. carl rahn griffith

    December 19th, 2006 at 4:30 am

    that’s nothing - our wifi wabbit (sic) has been down some 7 days …. we miss the cheeky little chap’s chirpy renderings of the time/weather and messages from friends and family around the globe.

    he’s functioning in an ad hoc kind of way at the moment - started doing tai chi with his ears again a cpl of days ago, but messages are still erratic. the french authors/creators of him (nabaztag), if you’re not familiar with them, are violet - they have not been very successful/communicative and seem something at a loss to resolve matters completely, even after one week.

    thank god this isn’t a mission-critical wabbit.

    and all this is simply as a result of their introducing a new web site last week for the wifi wabbit that silly people like us have craved and desired so badly and for no logical reason, we’ve gone out of our way and sourced/bought one.

    it’s so cute, we miss it badly, but it does make one wonder regards the french software industry. anglo-french relations take another blow.

    i think my domain, http://www.wifiwabbit.com has a purpose in life now. watch this space.

    in the meantime keep track of the web QA hilarity at violet/nabaztag ….

    http://nabaztag.typepad.com/nabaztablugs/

    you can try and send a message of goodwill to us, if he’s alive; we are ‘carlandhelensbunny’ - good luck …

    http://my.nabaztag.com/vl/action/myMessages.do

  13. Dennis Eusebio

    December 19th, 2006 at 5:08 am

    Give ‘em a break. They’re still working out the kinks I’m sure. I’m pretty much with Michael on the slow to love process. At first I was like, uhm, what happened but now that I got used to it, I honestly like the changes and can see where they’re going with it.

    Although, as a designer, they really have to change that top green color. Not really a functional issue, it just doesn’t go well with the overall palette for some reason.

  14. Mike

    December 19th, 2006 at 6:16 am

    1)I really can’t understand why digg’s homepage is always so slow.
    2)My experience with Digg is, when I get nothing to do online, I go to check Digg to kill some time, with hope to find something funny.

    -Mike
    Tech Tutorial: http://www.hotcoding.com

  15. mark

    December 19th, 2006 at 6:21 am

    i don’t know how i made it thru the night!

  16. Adrian Keys

    December 19th, 2006 at 6:35 am

    Really frightening…so much money…resources to kill…so many geeks…

    http://www.jollyjo.org

  17. Ronald Lewis

    December 19th, 2006 at 6:42 am

    I noticed the outage yesterday afternoon (after the upgrade) while attempting to add a podcast (which isn’t working out too well, unfortunately). Overall, the upgrade is great.

    I hope the upgrade will curtail some of the ongoing abuse by community members — digg’s technology and its people are wonderful, but its users can wreck complete hell on the community.

  18. matthew

    December 19th, 2006 at 6:47 am

    i wouldn’t start asking for heads just yet. every site experiences growing pains, especially when adding new features. del.icio.us outages anyone?

  19. HonestForum

    December 19th, 2006 at 9:38 am

    its funny how everybody talks about “surviving the digg effect”

    guess they didn’t.

    @snap, i think it would be interesting if you had an option to turn it on or off. then you could see the % of people who had switched it off, which i assume would be a pretty high %

  20. Sean

    December 19th, 2006 at 10:24 am

    I’ve never really had problems with digg being slow. Sometimes it takes a while to load the front page when I haven’t been there for a while, but that’s because they’re 10 MB of javascript isn’t in my cache anymore. It’s just like when you follow a link to a flickr.com picture and haven’t been there for a while, it takes a long time to load. Annoying but not that much.

  21. Drama 2.0

    December 19th, 2006 at 12:42 pm

    Next BusinessWeek cover story: how this kid lost $60 million in 2 hours.

  22. Don Wilson

    December 19th, 2006 at 12:59 pm

    Breaking news — website is down, I repeat, website is down!!!!

  23. Fashion Industry Ceo

    December 19th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

    i been trying to add it to my blog….for the longest! :(

  24. Eric

    December 19th, 2006 at 3:41 pm

    oh I hate snap too, the ugliest tool I’ve seen for a while.

  25. Kevin Burton

    December 19th, 2006 at 8:09 pm

    Ah….. notice the Debian logo in the downtime message? The Digg guys are big Debian fans ;)

    Hosting providers need to pull their collective heads out of the sand and start selling Debian over RedHat.

    One secret of Web 2.0 is that 80% of the startups here run Debian.

    Kevin

  26. Andrew

    December 20th, 2006 at 12:13 am

    Heh Kevin, the Debian logo is subtle - but the footer of their downtime message prominently includes links to Debian, PHP, MySQL, Apache etc… :p

  27. David Mackey

    December 23rd, 2006 at 2:58 pm

    After a while even this page went down for me and I couldn’t hit Digg at all.

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