iNat just went down

Platform: website

App version number, if a mobile app issue:

Browser, if a website issue: Brave

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/291707025

Screenshots of what you are seeing: I was identifying and got up to page 11 or so, then clicked on the next page. It went to the top of the page, but didn’t change to the next set of observations. After a while, it said “Type error: Failed to fetch”. I closed the tab, opened an identifying tab again, and got " This site can’t be reached www.inaturalist.org took too long to respond." I clicked on another ob and got the same thing.

Description of problem:

Step 1: Click on Identify, bringing it up in a new tab

Step 2: Wait a few minutes

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yes, the site seems to currently be down across the board

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Any feedback yet?

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nothing I know of, it first went down for me 35-40 mins ago

unscheduled, so something has gone wrong somewhere

very early hours of the morning for all the American time zones right now, so staff probably all asleep still

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Glad it’s not just me.

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If I remember correctly iNat is on Azure, which yesterday had huge issues due to a config error by Azure staff - so this could be a related issue. The IP address is not responding, just like yesterday.

forum.inaturalist.org is hosted by Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc, so that’s why it’s still up.

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Thanks folks. We’re experiencing some issues with our cloud provider resulting in the site being offline. We’re aware of it and looking to resolve things ASAP. We don’t currently have an estimate for when the site will be back online, but we’re working to make that happen as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience

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Thank you.

GSB ID queues. Waiting. Patiently :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

We claim injury time …

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/aws-outage-amazon-microsoft-down-live-updates-b2854714.html

Sites are coming back online …

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Patiently? Speak for yourself! :wink:

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Seems not recovered yet.

Have book. And garden. There is Life beyond iNat, I remember :rofl:

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Well, if I’m being honest, I have quite a number of other things I should be doing anyway - but procrastinating on iNat is much more fun - and, bonus! I can tell myself it’s useful!

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I remember Life beyond iNat - it wasn’t as much fun.

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I was planning on observing on iNat today. Quite unfortunate :frowning:

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You can still observe… the posting is what needs to wait

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yeah..

Yeah… I became addicted to the way iNat helps me see life unfolding

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Is there info out there for GSB Newbies - who do not yet know that the habituated addicts gather on the forum to commiserate?

@gsbadmin ? Or maybe iNat on Twitter / X ?

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Small progress - we have ‘down for unscheduled maintenance’ Better than spinning wheels, and dead.

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