[HN Gopher] [Updated] Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down
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[Updated] Apple Entertainment Services are slow or down
Author : irsagent
Score : 57 points
Date : 2023-02-23 21:44 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.apple.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.apple.com)
| vuln wrote:
| Wow, a clean and accurate status page. Companies can learn from
| this.
| mshockwave wrote:
| Both App Stores, Apple Music, Podcasts...wow these are all high-
| value services
| arthurcolle wrote:
| First time I try to use Apple Podcasts and it is down. At least
| this explains why I spent 10 minutes messing with the app before
| giving up!
| weaksauce wrote:
| overcast is a pretty good alternative to apple podcasts if you
| are looking for something else
| Temporary_31337 wrote:
| Try Pocket Casts too, much better for makingsure your regular
| Podcasts are downloaded before things go offline. I tried
| switching to Apple Podcasts and I found out the hard way that
| it didnt download my episodes before a 10 hour flight.
| jdminhbg wrote:
| Apple Music is bad with this too. Even though it's what I
| use for streaming, I simply do not trust it to keep things
| locally if it decides it might have a better idea about
| whether I need disk space than it does. I use Castro for
| podcasts (inbox/queue works great for maintaining local
| downloads) and Doppler for music.
| cocacola1 wrote:
| Seconded. Phenomenal app made by a single dev.
| zimpenfish wrote:
| Although Overcast has some infuriating UI/UX nonsense (like
| not remembering where you are if you swap away from the app,
| searches not being sorted, etc.) and some weird bugs
| (sometimes when you play, it'll do a couple of seconds and
| then stop. Might be related to a previously downloaded
| episode being evicted from cache but handle that properly!)
|
| On the other hand, it's the least worst podcast app I've
| tried on iOS thus far.
| can16358p wrote:
| Weird. One of my random contacts just sent me a Game Center
| friend request an hour ago... which I never use. I even forgot
| such a thing existed.
|
| Started to think its related somehow.
| jalino23 wrote:
| app store aint down for me
| Jtsummers wrote:
| Click on the individual service (or use the mobile site that
| doesn't require that) and you get this: Today,
| 2:03 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This
| service may be slow or unavailable.
|
| It's not a total outage.
| aluminum96 wrote:
| I love how the Apple status dashboard actually goes red when
| services are down. You'd think that would be easy, but most
| companies prefer to lie with their dashboards to meet SLOs.
| radicaldreamer wrote:
| Slack is notorious for not reflecting issues on their dashboard
| guestbest wrote:
| If slack chat is down and they use it internally, how would
| they know about outages. Probably would need sms
| lelandbatey wrote:
| Slack the company does use Slack the product for inter-
| company communication. However, their Slack-inside-Slack is
| a relatively isolated "instance" of Slack on separate
| infrastructure for exactly that reason. The exact level of
| isolation/redundancy is not clear to me though.
|
| Source: I asked a Slack engineer about this in-person.
| Maybe a real Slack employee can chime in with more info.
| irsagent wrote:
| I agree. No BS, just the facts, of whether or not ther services
| are running
| grupthink wrote:
| Interesting. I woke up to find that my iCloud & App Store
| accounts got locked. I was able to recover my account by
| resetting my password though. I wonder if it's related to this
| outage.
| jrgaston wrote:
| Opened the iTunes store an hour ago, searched "Handel", went to
| albums, but could not open any album. So yeah, it was down.
| irsagent wrote:
| Do you think this connected to anything bigger, like a rollout or
| an update?
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