FriendFeed Down; The Whale Has Switched Oceans

by Allen Stern on August 5th, 2008

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Reports are coming in over the past hour that message board service FriendFeed is down. Ouriel in Israel is reporting that he is getting error messages when attempting to access the service. When I attempt to load the FriendFeed site, I don’t receive a down message; instead I see a customized "service unavailable" message. Cyndy reported the outage on Industry Standard as well.

PR executive Steve Rubel is reporting the site is down for him in NYC and he is considering taking a sick day so he can monitor the situation. You can track real-time chatter about FriendFeed’s down status using Summize.

Hey FriendFeed team, where’s your status page? Please report in if you are having issues accessing FriendFeed and how you are using the time. Are you already packing up for socialthing? Or heading back to Twitter? Whatever you do, please remain calm. Most likely the team is asleep since Silicon Valley is always a minimum of three hours behind the rest of the world. FriendFeed’s last major outage was in May.

Update: FriendFeed’s outage made CN load slowly due to a widget that pulls from FriendFeed. I’ve removed the widget until the service resumes.

Update 2: FriendFeed is back as of 8AM Eastern. Please resume normal Internet activity now.