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Netflix down! Netflix down!
I visited the Netflix site to check on the DVDs I have up for shipping - the two discs that make up Miss Marple: Collection 1, because M loves that show, you see - but the site was down, and has been for a few hours now. Scarcely worth blogging about, except that I was amused to see that someone visited this blog via Google looking for information on the outage, which indicates a certain level of desperation out there.
So: I can’t help you with info, Netflixians. But I can point you to a community which can, sort of. They’re all waiting too.
Jeez. Netflix is like a goddamned public utility, it’s so necessary.
Update, 7:42 pm Central: Wow.
Don’t be surprised if your movie is delayed a bit in shipping.
Also: No speculation in the media - none that I’ve found, anyway - that the company was hacked. As for customers…their chief concern seems to be “Is my movie queue okay?” Interesting.
Update, 8:19 pm Central: The site is back up. Can hardly wait to hear the story behind the interruption.
Our national Netflix outage nightmare is over…for some. This from a commenter at Hacking Netflix (no, not that kind of hacking):
I just got on and they show NOTHING shipped!
Go figure! Just a loss for us customers. Plus a double whammy for me as they failed to completely ship my last disc as the label was ripped off appearently and the disc returned without me getting it!
A lost rental AND a full days delay on all 3 then!!!
Oh, the humanity.
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This is so funny. I avoided going Netflix for a long time because I just knew I wouldn’t watch those movies. It’s turned out to be true. Sometimes I have them for a month before I get to them. I am Netflix’s best dream: all income, very little output. I have both my films happily awaiting my attention. No drama for me.
But obviously this caused some people delirium tremens. I could relate had I ordered a video for a class, but I’d like to think I’d have ordered the video well in advance.
And my queue is fine.
The reaction of some of these subscribers is just hilarious. Overwrought to the nth degree. Made me smile.
I go through phases where Netflix just rakes in cash from me for very little effort - it’s just hard to think of films I want to watch sometimes. Then I get on an enthusiastic run. It’s worth it, I guess. Until something better comes along.