Steam Store is offline

(steamstat.us)

47 points | by DetectDefect 2 hours ago

6 comments

Thaxll 1 hour ago
Fun to be on call December 24th.
imagetic 1 hour ago
It’s Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting crushed.
Good hunting.
vondur 1 hour ago
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.
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- jordand 1 hour ago
  Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth too
- lomase 1 hour ago
  Maybe that is why is down.
  On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.
Insanity 56 minutes ago
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.
reactordev 1 hour ago
Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
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- spwa4 1 hour ago
  Yeah but I couldn't find an empty socket so just unplugged a few other things. It works now.
  The Christmas lights I mean.
theandrewbailey 1 hour ago
> 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.
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- jtrn 45 minutes ago
  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.
- kube-system 1 hour ago
  People visit these sites when they have problems. A large number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with an issue with the service.
- Dylan16807 1 hour ago
  I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict here.