When Tumblr Is Down...

Tumblr down again...

hannes — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:05:19 +0000

One of our service providers just suffered a major network outage, reducing our web capacity significantly for the past two hours.

We’re frustrated with the amount of time it took to resolve this issue, but are more disappointed that this issue had such a dramatic impact on our service. We’re already working to remove this component as a single point of failure.

Our deepest apologies for letting you down tonight.

It looks like Tumblr was down last night. A lot of people stumbled upon WhenTumblrIsDown.com. I even received an email, a cry for help:

I need tumblr. It is down. It is my key to sanity. And I need it before I go insane. (:

But everything is up and running now and we can continue enjoying Tumblr and all its awesomeness :)

Tumblr down

hannes — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:22:49 +0000

staff:

For several hours this evening, an issue resulting from a software upgrade caused the Dashboard to be slow or unresponsive for many users. While your blogs were not directly affected, we know that incidents like this are inexcusable.

We’re incredibly sorry and appreciate your patience with us tonight.

Tumblr was (partially) down earlier this week.

When Tumblr is down will be blacked out on January 18 to protest SOPA and PIPA

hannes — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:15:00 +0000

I’ve added the javascript code provided on sopastrike.com to whentumblrisdown.com so the site should be “blacked out” for 12 hours on January 18. I’m joining several other websites in a global blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA (these bills are just crazy - definitely not the right way to go).

I’m not in the US but I signed this petition. If you are in the US you can do even more! We have to stop this from changing the Internet!

P.S. I also added the blackout code to silly.tumblr.com

When Tumblr is down... What happens? Why is Tumblr down? What are you missing?

hannes — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:38:58 +0000

When Tumblr is down... What happens? Why is Tumblr down? What are you missing?:

There are now over 50 different “When Tumblr is down…” sentences.

Collect them all ;)

Error. There was an error processing your request. Our...

hannes — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:37:00 +0100

Error.

There was an error processing your request. Our engineers have been alerted and will work quickly to correct any issues.

We’re incredibly sorry for the inconvenience.

Please feel free to contact support if the problem persists.

Another type of error messages from Tumblr :(

We’re sorry Our servers are over capacity and certain...

hannes — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:19:07 +0100

We’re sorry

Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We’re working quickly to resolve the issue.

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.tumblr.com Earlier...

hannes — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 01:06:00 +0100

Oops! Google Chrome could not connect to www.tumblr.com

Earlier today… nooooooo!

I like that he tagged the post with #hannes :)

hannes — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 01:08:26 +0100

I like that he tagged the post with #hannes :)

Press

hannes — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:19:00 +0100

Talking about msnbc, did I tell you about all the other press whentumblrisdown.com has gotten?

Here are a few links:

Good times :)

msnbc: Thank goodness for...

hannes — Fri, 06 May 2011 02:09:23 +0100

msnbc:

Thank goodness for http://whentumblrisdown.com/.

Interesting… I hadn’t noticed msnbc had posted about whentumblrisdown.com
Nice :)

When Facebook is down... What happens? Why is Facebook down? What are you missing?

hannes — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 13:06:56 +0100

When Facebook is down... What happens? Why is Facebook down? What are you missing?:

Did you know about this spin-off? I posted about it on Twitter some time ago.

Some similarities there, but some new (Facebook specific) stuff too ;)

New Tumblr error screen: Tumbeasts are roaming the datacenter

hannes — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 23:26:47 +0000

New Tumblr error screen: Tumbeasts are roaming the datacenter

The Fail Whale and some Tumbeasts spend a nice day at the beach

hannes — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 02:04:47 +0000

oatmeal:

High-res version

Love this :)

Dear Tumblr

hannes — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:16:00 +0000

oatmeal:

If you’re going to go down, you might as well blame it on an imaginary animal like Twitter did with their infamous Fail Whale. I’ve taken the liberty of creating this animal for you:

Please use it.

Please oh please.

-The Oatmeal

Good one :)

Update: David Karp just sent Oatmeal an e-mail and they’re actually going to use it.

A quick fact

hannes — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 23:37:20 +0000

On average people look at 9.75 pages per visit to WhenTumblrIsDown.com

So people are missing out on a lot of funnies because there are a lot more sentences in the “pool” that is picked out of randomly ;)

coketalk: Normally, I consider it rude to complain about...

hannes — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:12:41 +0000

coketalk:

Normally, I consider it rude to complain about complimentary service, but since I got a shout out, I’ll make an exception for whentumblrisdown.com.

Another “Tumblr celebrity” I wanted to include on http://whentumblrisdown.com as a tribute.

yimmyayo: whentumblrisdown.com Nice :) yimmyayo is one of...

hannes — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:09:46 +0000

yimmyayo:

whentumblrisdown.com

Nice :)

yimmyayo is one of my favorite blogs. Definitely my favorite photo blog. I’m glad to know he saw this :)

We’ll be black shortly I see what you did there :)

hannes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 21:19:10 +0000

We’ll be black shortly

I see what you did there :)

Tumblr Staff: Downtime

hannes — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 01:31:36 +0000

Tumblr Staff: Downtime:

staff:

Yesterday afternoon, during planned maintenance that was not intended to interrupt service, an issue arose that took down a critical database cluster. This brought down our entire network while our engineers worked feverishly to restore these databases and bring your blogs back online.

While you…

Well… that was quite a ride :) The site usually gets traffic spikes when Tumblr goes down - but never like this. Things have been crazy. Well, Tumblr has never been down for 24+ hours before…

I’m going to post more tomorrow… new additions, new sponsor, links to some press coverage etc.

david: john: Text from my daughter re: Tumblr...

hannes — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 01:40:22 +0000

david:

john:

Text from my daughter re: Tumblr performance

DAAAAAAAaaaaaaaad

Nice one :)