Guilty!
Itāll actually be great PR for CrowdCube, itāll get their name out in the news, etcā¦ unfortunately people donāt expect websites to scale properly when hit by peak demand.
It is a bit ridiculous that after all this time CrowdCube havenāt built a proper scaling solution though.
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Just got an email from CC saying that the investment was successful and everything will be reconfirmed when the round closes - apologised for the poor form and that the freetrade round will be back open soon 
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Hold on a secondā¦ didnāt they have similar issue during Monzoās second round? I remember Crowdcubeās website crashed as well.
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Yes and it appears this had an even greater demand 
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I was able to get in quite early and was ok but after about 5 mins the site was unusable.
I was able to gain access and pledge fairly quickly through the CC app. I imagine there will be some late nights for CC folk tonight!
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I was thinking about investing and picking up Freetrade, but it all happened so fast and I didnāt even have time to receive the financial documents let alone read them!
If it opens up again and I still canāt get access to their documents then so be it. Iām not going to rush or pledge just for the fear of missing out, Iām happy to move a bit slower and be the one in control.
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Itās only a pledge, which you can cancel if you arenāt happy after reading the documents
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It looks like CC have started re-instating the investments which they had cancelled, my original investment amount is back.
Freetrade are closing this investment round, they are opening a new round in June.
Good idea as it gives access to more EIS and hopefully a stable crowdcube environment - at least by June they should have two hamsters on wheels instead of just the one (poor little thing).
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Iām still amazed to this day how lapse Crowdcube are in nearly every department.
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How many ended up investing?
(From this forum)
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