Instagram is Down [Updated]

According to thousands of users, Instagram website and app are facing technical issues. Users attempting to visit the website are seeing a "5xx Server Error", while on the app, they are getting "Couldn't refresh feed." According to DownDetector, a service which monitors outages on the web, more than 2,000 people have reported issues with Facebook-owned Instagram in the last 10 minutes. Update: As of 19:20 GMT, Instagram appears to have resolved the issue.

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Is this the end?

[Ecuador]

Is this the end of civilization as we know it?
Seriously, can we can we have any lower quality posts here, we are half-trying to hit bottom currently, let's go all the way.

Re:Is this the end?

[Anonymous Coward]

Elon Musk claims Instagram is down
Apple Announces new Instagram Keyboard with less clicky clack
Facebook denies claims that instagram is down
Apple Announces new Instagram Keyboard with softer touchy touch

Re:Is this the end?

[Oswald McWeany]

Ding Dong the Witch is dead,
Which old Witch?
The Wicked Witch

Re:Is this the end?

[Anonymous Coward]

and still nothing was lost.

Re:Is this the end?

[Anonymous Coward]

President Trump tweeted that "The FAKE, very BAD, Instagram is DOWN." Advises all "REAL AMERICAN PATRIOTS" to "Use very GREAT and SMART Twitter" instead.

Re:Is this the end?

[jellomizer]

No but it shows how the internet has gravitated towards a few large sites for its content, where an outage affects many people.

Re: Is this the end?

[Zero__Kelvin]

2000 people is essentially nobody at internet scale.

Re: Is this the end?

[harperska]

2k isn't the number of people affected. It's the number of people who reported it. I would guess that the number of people who report an outage are a tiny fraction of the number affected. I casually use Instagram. I noticed it was down when I tried to browse it. I didn't report it to anybody because I figured Richmond was already working on rebooting the servers by that time, and my reporting of the issue would only add to noise. It turns out I was correct, and the service did manage to come back up despite my non-reporting of the outage.

Re: Is this the end?

[Zero__Kelvin]

No shit Sherlock

Re:Is this the end?

[Richard Dick Head]

I feel a great disturbance in the Force. As if millions of thots and snowflakes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Re:Is this the end?

[Aighearach]

Is this the end of civilization as we know it?

Are we there yet?

What about now?

Are you sure?

Maybe we should stop and ask for directions, I was sure we were passing through it about this time last year.

Re: Is this the end?

[Aighearach]

Maybe the rest of them merely knew about it, but were not significantly affected?

Re:Is this the end?

[hcs_$reboot]

can we can we

yes, we can.

Re:Is this the end?

[LinuxIsGarbage]

I'm not surprised that Slashdot posted this, but rather that they didn't wait 6 weeks, and only posted it once.

Who gives a shit

[Anonymous Coward]

Not news for nerds

Re:Who gives a shit

[tbuddy]

It was probably directly related to the Slashdot effect with its droves of viewers hitting it simultaneously.

Re:Who gives a shit

[Known Nutter]

The "Slashdot effect" hasn't been a thing in years.

Re:Who gives a shit

[hcs_$reboot]

Yeah, everybody has upgraded their servers since.

Meanwhile...

[cre1mer]

Instagram models are weeping in the streets.

Re:Meanwhile...

[Robert Goatse]

and every high school kid. Maybe they can discover, oh I don't know, the outdoors?!

Re:Meanwhile...

[Oswald McWeany]

Plenty of pictures of the outdoors on Instagram

Re:Meanwhile...

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't click on his homepage link! creimer is trying to get you to subscribe automatically to his youtube channel, force you to watch his digi-feces videos and make money off you!

MODDOWN! ; creimer youtube spam post again!

creimer wants you to click on his youtube channel, then click on his stupid amazon affiliate link spam on Youtube. There is nothing of value on creimer youtube channel. Only creimer click-bot goes there.

CREIMER' SUBMISSIONS UPDATE:
Note also that creimer is trying to regain karma by getting his submissions published as articles on /. so make sure to go to:
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and mod down his submissions as well. The great thing is that you don't even need mod points to mod down a submission, just click on the "minus" icon!

Yes, believe it or not, creimer owns all the above sock puppet accounts. It is a mystery why Slashdot management tolerates it!

creimer wrote:

I don't bother with mod points. I'm doing something much more sinister. It took ten story submissions ? I'll have to double check the number ? to move cdreimer's karma from neutral to excellent without ever being exposed to the capricious mods. Mmmmmwwwwahahahahahahaha!

https://slashdot.org/comments....

Danger, Will Robinson, Danger! Creimy is posting more than 2 posts a day. Hurry! mod down otherwise /. will go to hell again!

Note: you can mod down even if already at -1 to lower karma and to prevent lost /. users to accidentally mod up.

creimer wrote:

All you need to do is find a website with a permissive TOS, say, Slashdot, create a Python script to scrape your own comments, sprinkle Amazon affiliate links in various posts, and then re-post past links whenever possible. Won't be long before you start making "coffee money" each month.

https://slashdot.org/comments....

C.D. Reimer is a renowned Slashdot collaborator, as he puts it himself; "Because of the quality of my posts and my article submissions, I'm a highly rated commentator and moderator."

But does anybody ever wondered what "C.D." stands for? Well, it stands for Creimy Dumpty of course!

Creimy Dumpty sat on the wall,
Creimy Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Creimy Dumpty
Together again.

Creimy's siblings video and theme song, very realistic, especially the pants, just like Creimy's:

Re:Meanwhile...

[Aighearach]

You might have been too busy playing with your goats to notice all the people in the news dying falling off cliffs while taking selfies?!

What is instagam?

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously.

Re:What is instagam?

[Anonymous Coward]

It's like sending a telegram to someone using Morse code, except it happens instantly via a mobile device.

Re:What is instagam?

[jetkust]

It's sort of like snapface and instachat but not quite as good.

Obligatory

[Anonymous Coward]

And nothing of value was lost.

Pictures?

[Anonymous Coward]

Pictures or it didn't happen....

Re:Pictures?

[Oswald McWeany]

Pictures or it didn't happen....

Sure here you go: https://instagram.com/fakeinst...

Re:Pictures?

[Anonymous Coward]

WARNING!
goatse link

Re: Pictures?

[Zero__Kelvin]

In this case a lack of pictures is proof it didn't happen.

Was it due to Amazon routers?

[Anonymous Coward]

You get what you paid for.

—Cisco sales rep.

Re:Was it due to Amazon routers?

[hcs_$reboot]

So you say that Amazon is not as reliable as your own made infrastructure? Doubt that.

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I felt a great disturbance in the Force

[Anonymous Coward]

as if a million thots cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Hopefully

[sheph]

Hopefully it's down for good.

Re:Hopefully

[Oswald McWeany]

Hopefully it's down for good.

If it were something physical rather than a web site I'd kick it whilst it were down.

got still the 5xx server error

[Anonymous Coward]

Tried www.instagram.com and still have this 5xx server error.
What is this error code?

Re: got still the 5xx server error

[Anonymous Coward]

if 5 69s, that is just your moms Friday night

slashdotted

[Anonymous Coward]

come on man, I almost had it back up and now you are slashdotting me.

Re:slashdotted

[Aighearach]

I always suspected instragram was just a raspberry pi in a basement somewhere.

Re:slashdotted

[hcs_$reboot]

"slashdotted"? Didn't hear that for a long time.

Are you sure?

[JoeDuncan]

I can access it just fine...

Probably just a switch or subnet issue

Old News!

[Anonymous Coward]

That is so 10 minutes ago. As of this posting, Instagram is working for me.

Re:Dammit

[JoeDuncan]

Rite?

Good

[sproketboy]

Stay Down!

Nobody sane gives a shit.

[iCEBaLM]

(n/t)

OMG?!?!? What ever will we do?!?!?!?!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh my GOD!!!! This is TERRIBLE! What will we do?!?!?!?!

I'm so scared!!!!

Captain rectum!

[Anonymous Coward]

My butthole is full of jelly!

No Instagram in Federal Prison, Drumpftards

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump will soon never have Instagram ever again in his obese treasonous faggot life. Sad? (not really no, lol) HANG the traitor bitch, though he truly deserves much, much worse than that.

Oh, what a day

[Artem S. Tashkinov]

What a lovely day!!

P.S. I'm not an Instagram user and I don't endorse this website.

Still clueless.

[Anonymous Coward]

I have no idea what function Instagram serves. I get Twitter, I get Facebook, I get Snapchat, I get YouTube... but Instagram is a mystery to me. Same with Pinterest.

Obligatory "and nothing of value was lost"

[Revek]

I stopped at facebook. I am not interested these methods of communication. Often its just garbage on top of garbage. I haven't logged in to facebook this year. Somehow all the people I want to know and communicate with are still accessible to me.

Slashdot

[cascadingstylesheet]

Slashdot 2018: outage notices and political pieces.

I suppose those are for a certain kind of "nerd" ...

Re:Slashdot

[Thelasko]

Everything is political now. Welcome to 2018.

/. Journalism at its finest.

[fahrbot-bot]

Instagram is Down

Instagram is down.

Instagram is Down [Updated]

Instagram is back up

[a] Why is this a story? and [b] (sigh)

Finally

[Anonymous Coward]

Glad I wont see stupid cunts in drive-thru taking pics of themselves with a duck face (instead of a dick in their face). Cant resist posting this.

Re: Finally

[Zero__Kelvin]

You also wouldn't see them anyway. What do you think Instagram does? Do you think they slip images in to your slashdot session when you aren't looking?

and

[thomn8r]

... nothing of value was lost

Oh no!

[ilsaloving]

How will I see what people ate for lunch?

Media 2018....

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Ping major websites
2) Post news items when they go down
3) Clicks and profit

Facebook down?

[Anonymous Coward]

God is good!

In other news...

[TimMD909]

... a bizarre 15 minutes of increased productivity was noticed across the world.

Dear Slashdot

[Anonymous Coward]

Please don't feature stupid shit like this.

I don't want to hear about whether Instagram is down unless you're telling me that they are bankrupt.

I'll even accept a well written summary of a major outage that they had, but please don't pretend that you're downdetector.

In related news..

[PPH]

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

Instagram is Down

[Anonymous Coward]

Nothing of any value lost.

great

[Anonymous Coward]

at least my mom spend some time outside instagram...

Insta

[dohzer]

Instagram is like a slightly different version of Facebook, right?

Hmm!

[antdude]

Is that why my earlier comments vanished from iOS app? :/