Yazılar

eddit and X Back Online After Outages Disrupt U.S. Users

/in /tarafından

Social media platforms X and Reddit have both recovered from outages that affected thousands of users across the United States on Thursday, according to data from outage tracking website Downdetector.com. The disruptions impacted users’ access to the sites for several hours before services were restored.

Reddit acknowledged the issue on its status page, noting that degraded performance started at approximately 3:16 p.m. ET. At the height of the outage, more than 33,000 incidents were reported, as tracked by Downdetector, which aggregates user-submitted reports.

A Reddit spokesperson explained that the issue was caused by a bug in a recent update, which has since been resolved, restoring the platform’s functionality.

Meanwhile, X also experienced a similar disruption, with about 18,000 outage reports at its peak. The disruption for the platform, owned by Elon Musk, began around 3:03 p.m. ET. X has yet to provide an official comment regarding the issue.

Though the reports are based on user submissions, the exact number of affected users is difficult to determine. Both platforms have since resumed normal service.

Sony Extends PlayStation Plus Membership After Global Outage

/in /tarafından

Sony has announced a five-day extension for all PlayStation Plus subscribers following a global outage that disrupted the PlayStation Network (PSN) for nearly 18 hours on Friday and Saturday. The company confirmed that network services had been fully restored by Saturday evening and expressed regret for the inconvenience caused to users.

The outage, which began late on Friday, prevented users from signing in, playing online games, or accessing the PlayStation Store. Sony did not specify the cause of the disruption in its update. At its peak, the outage affected nearly 8,000 users in the U.S. and over 7,300 in the UK, according to Downdetector.com, which tracks service interruptions.

This incident is the latest in a series of PSN outages, though Sony has faced more severe disruptions in the past. A cyberattack in 2014 forced the network offline for several days, and a significant data breach in 2011 compromised the personal information of millions of users, resulting in a month-long service shutdown and a regulatory investigation.

Despite the inconvenience, the extended PlayStation Plus membership is seen as a way to compensate users for the lost time. One user on X (formerly Twitter) humorously remarked that Sony had “saved millions of gamers’ Sunday” after the outage impacted their Saturday.

Instagram Outage Reports Drop Significantly in the U.S., Downdetector Shows

/in /tarafından

Instagram’s outage incidents in the U.S. saw a sharp decline on Wednesday morning, according to Downdetector.com, signaling that the issue affecting many users had largely been resolved. By 9:32 a.m. ET, only 619 outage reports were logged, down from a peak of 11,255 earlier in the day. Downdetector tracks service disruptions by gathering status reports from various sources, though the actual number of affected users may differ.

Meta, the parent company of Instagram, did not immediately respond to requests for comment regarding the outage. The platform’s services, including Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp, have experienced disruptions on multiple occasions in the past year, with a major global outage in March.