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HN Traffic Site Downtime

Comments discuss websites crashing, slowing down, or becoming unavailable due to sudden traffic spikes from Hacker News submissions, often referred to as the 'HN effect'.

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Sample Comments

forkerenok • Feb 3, 2023 • View on HN

I think it's getting hammered by HN traffic. A few minutes ago it was working fine.

geuis • Sep 23, 2008 • View on HN

Hmm, site's down. Could it be HN overloaded a server? Is this the beginning of the "hack-effect"? =)

mmaunder • Aug 31, 2021 • View on HN

Seems to be affecting HN availability, which is intermittent for me.

kebman • Feb 10, 2023 • View on HN

Looks like the HN posting crashed the site.

xmdx • Jun 12, 2023 • View on HN

Cloudflare is having issues and I noticed HN is going down for me (takes multiple reloads to work) so might not just be them.

guftagu • Aug 20, 2016 • View on HN

Looks like HN traffic broke the site.

Gasp0de • Aug 15, 2023 • View on HN

The website is down for me, has it been overloaded by the HN crowd?

Jack000 • Sep 25, 2017 • View on HN

what seems to be the problem? server getting hammered by hn traffic might have something to do with it

t3ra • Nov 1, 2016 • View on HN

Probably the site got HN-ed. Timing out for me as well

wowzer • Nov 20, 2012 • View on HN

Looks like HN traffic hosed their site...