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Steam Store is offline

https://steamstat.us/
47•DetectDefect•2h ago

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vondur•1h ago
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•1h ago
Maybe that is why is down.

On sales the store does not go down, but gets really slow.

jordand•1h ago
Yeah the login is taking ages and it's needing me to re-auth too
reactordev•1h ago
Someone tripped on the Christmas lights
spwa4•1h ago
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•1h ago
Fun to be on call December 24th.
theandrewbailey•1h ago
> 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•1h ago
People visit these sites when they have problems. A large number of people experiencing problems correlates heavily with an issue with the service.
Dylan16807•1h ago
I don't think "indicates" and "not necessarily" are in conflict here.
jtrn•47m ago
And more people turning up at the clinic doesn’t mean there are more sick people, but it’s an indication.

Funny that you ignored “indicates,” which is a perfectly valid inference here, and also it’s true.

If you want to be pedant, don’t self-own.

imagetic•1h ago
It’s Christmas n00b eve. All video game platforms are getting crushed.

Good hunting.

Insanity•58m ago
Yikes. Notable that it rarely happens though!

Does mean that debugging and getting it back up might take more time as they aren’t necessarily “battle tested” for this situation.

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