Many sites seem to be down. The Guardian, Reddit, parts of Spotify and a lot of others. What is going on?
Interesting, perhaps another Amazon AWS style service has gone down for a bit.
Wonder who’s at fault this time!
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Must be AWS somewhere. This will also explain why eBay is half loading for me!
These are down for everyone, we’ve had a number of complaints. As above, the bottleneck this time is Fastly it would seem.
Quite a few getting a spike in down notifications.
Haha, love that the link doesn’t work!
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Is this how Skynet starts? 
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It appears that it was an issue with Fastly. Seems seem to be working as normal again Websites begin to work again after major breakage - BBC News
Yeah everything seems to be working again - panic over I believe 
The Guardian’s top story is now The Guardian (and others) having an outage:
A bit meta 
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From @SouthseaOne 's link:
As well as bringing down some websites entirely, the failure also broke specific sections of other services, such as the servers for Twitter that host the social network’s emojis.
I don’t know why but the idea of having a separate server to store your emoji’s really tickle me.
I do love the little peek behind the curtain when The Internet breaks though, how there’s maybe a handful of businesses and services that can just break the entire internet.
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Anyone else finding the forum really slow to load this afternoon?
Yes, very
Maybe if they store the emojis elsewhere it would help
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Other discourse forums are going slow today too, not isolated to this place.
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