[HN Gopher] Roblox has been down for over 24 hours
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       Roblox has been down for over 24 hours
        
       Author : intunderflow
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2021-10-29 22:36 UTC (23 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (status.roblox.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (status.roblox.com)
        
       | intunderflow wrote:
       | There's probably a lesson in here about managing incidents, very
       | few updates or acknowledgments there's even a major problem.
       | 
       | Will be interesting to find out what caused an incident big
       | enough to kill their entire platform for so long (if they release
       | details or they come out through the grapevine)
        
         | stingraycharles wrote:
         | Seems to me that a routing / networking issue would have been
         | resolved by now, and application bug would have been rolled
         | back.
         | 
         | If I were to speculate, I would say that it must have something
         | to do with databases / storage. Something must have gone wrong
         | and broke some database, and it's difficult to restore.
        
           | intunderflow wrote:
           | They had an incident in the past where they returned nil for
           | all get operations, that caused some chaos at the time so
           | it's not unprecedented: https://devforum.roblox.com/t/update-
           | datastores-incident-dat...
        
       | numbsafari wrote:
       | Interestingly... the stock is up 3% over the course of this
       | outage so far.
        
         | jasoncartwright wrote:
         | Sounds like when Fastly went down - the stock went up. Everyone
         | suddenly realised how much of the internet they powered?
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | Well everything can be taken 'down', from blockchains to even
       | real life by governments.
       | 
       | For the metaverse to succeed, it should never be 'down'. Good
       | luck with that if it is on a single platform or a single point of
       | failure.
       | 
       | Perhaps an interoperable metaverse / hyperverse then?
        
       | EastOfTruth wrote:
       | Wow... seems like a good time to sell Roblox stocks... specially
       | that most of Roblox' popular games appear to haven been cloned
       | into Minecraft ... earnings are coming up real soon though
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
       | 
       |  _Roblox Service Disruption_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29034909 - Oct 2021 (40
       | comments)
        
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