[HN Gopher] Steam Store is offline
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       Steam Store is offline
        
       Author : DetectDefect
       Score  : 34 points
       Date   : 2025-12-24 21:50 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (steamstat.us)
 (TXT) w3m dump (steamstat.us)
        
       | vondur wrote:
       | Ha, just noticed when I was trying to login to the desktop app.
       | Kept timing out. Hope they get it sorted out before everyone is
       | trying to redeem gift cards for Xmas.
        
         | lomase wrote:
         | Maybe that is why is down.
         | 
         | On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.
        
         | jordand wrote:
         | Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth
         | too
        
       | reactordev wrote:
       | Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
        
         | spwa4 wrote:
         | Yeah but I couldn't find an empty socket so just unplugged a
         | few other things. It works now.
         | 
         | The Christmas lights I mean.
        
       | Thaxll wrote:
       | Fun to be on call December 24th.
        
       | theandrewbailey wrote:
       | > There have been 160,000 page views on this site in the past
       | hour, this indicates an issue with Steam.
       | 
       | Number of page views on a "is it down" page is not necessarily
       | indicative of a problem. Not being able to connect to the service
       | in question is.
        
         | kube-system wrote:
         | People visit these sites when they have problems. A large
         | number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with
         | an issue with the service.
        
         | Dylan16807 wrote:
         | I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict
         | here.
        
       | imagetic wrote:
       | It's Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting
       | crushed.
       | 
       | Good hunting.
        
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