All Telegram servers are down

They are not down [1]. But it does look like a lot of Europe is affected [2] and if you stay on that page. It looks like the attack is growing. Top hits are "Ukraine, Germany, Russia".

Also, the OP link provides ZERO information on the claim. Mods could use my [2] link for the OP link. As it does seem to be happening.

[1] - https://twitter.com/telegram/with_replies

[2] - https://outage.report/telegram

Edited: for formatting and there does seem to be an attack growing. I also petition the mods to update the link to something more informative.

toyg · 5 years ago

Some of the comments on your second link say their VPN is also down. I wonder if it's some outage in a popular datacentre or backbone.

Is there a reason this is on the front page other than for it being seemingly down? There is no information in the link.

I am scratching my head as to why we are all gathered here. What am I missing?

Maybe I am just too used to software outages?

asdfasgasdgasdg · 5 years ago

There's a front page story every time google, apple or Amazon are down. I'm not sure telegram warrants the same publicity but it doesn't seem completely inappropriate.

lolinder · 5 years ago

The question is, why is the link to telegram's homepage? It's not down, and has 0 information on what is happening.

kelnos · 5 years ago

I've honestly never understood why these sorts of posts (even for those larger companies with services everyone relies on) get so much traction on HN. I can very easily tell for myself when a site is down, and it's not hard to find most companies' service status page. Sure, if a few days later we get an interesting/detailed post-mortem from the company, I'd find that interesting, but "X is down" does not tickle me intellectually at all, and just wastes a slot on the front page. The inevitable speculation as to whether it was a bad deploy, a bad configuration update, a DDoS attack, whatever, is just not really interesting, though I guess (IMO unfortunately) enough people here find it interesting.

Of course, I'm here commenting, so somehow I got enticed to click through to the comments, so who knows what that says about me...

MattGaiser · 5 years ago

Usually that at least comes with a status page or a news article about the impact or something. This just links the product.

Kye · 5 years ago

Telegram is used by enough furries that the Telegram Twitter account jokes about it, and a lot of furries are in tech.

nperez · 5 years ago

A potential major attack on an encrypted messaging service would be newsworthy to me, but there needs to be some info on what happened

Smirnoff · 5 years ago

Telegram messenger is encrypted? That's news to me.

cblconfederate · 5 years ago

My theory is: When something is down, people may be upvoting to show sympathy / trying to bring it up again. Who knows

rdkls · 5 years ago

Probably also because of geopolitical aspect, given Telegram's rocky past with Russian government.

heimatau · 5 years ago

bunkerbewohner · 5 years ago

Has been down for me in Berlin, Germany, for an hour or so.

Trying to log in via web gives me this error:

Method: auth.sendCode Result: {"_":"rpc_error","error_code":420,"error_message":"FLOOD_WAIT_438"}

Maybe a localized DDoS attack?

hoppla · 5 years ago

420? Not a http status code I know of

pacificmint · 5 years ago

Twitter apparently returns a “420 Enhance your calm” error when you exceed their rate limiting. It’s not an official http code, though.

lucb1e · 5 years ago

(Username) Do you really live in a bunker?

No, sadly I do not.

joshxyz · 5 years ago

me finding this thread from https://t.me/news_ycombinator

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

inglor_cz · 5 years ago

This is an interesting practical exercise. We generally expect our Web services to be available all the time.

What else broke down due to Telegram being offline? Are there any fallbacks?

sleepyK · 5 years ago

Hmmmm they're not ALL down. Working just fine for me in India and my friends in the US.

ufmace · 5 years ago

Localized outage? Everything's working fine for me, has been all day.

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In UK atm, there was a markedly slow startup / refresh but looks like it's working (well, i guess - all my contacts are asleep, lol).