Amazon website crashes on Prime Day

[edhopper]

just hours after Trump bows before Putin.

Coincidence?

[samnsara]

1. i forgot about prime day!

[edhopper]

2. Well

it's not happening right now.
I see reports from all over the site crashed.
Can't wait to hear the cause.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. It is sort of working for me as I try to get on to browse.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. It won't let me go to the deals

It keeps returning to their main "Prime Day" page.

[greatauntoftriplets]

8. That's happening to me, too.

But if I search for something specific, I can get to that item.

[BumRushDaShow]

13. This is what I'm seeing

Another common issue that appears to be popping up the users that can get Amazon’s website to load is a never-ending loop between the homepage and an incomplete deals page. In that situation, clicking on the “Shop All Deals” button takes you from the homepage to another, similar-looking page that prompts you to click the same again button, which will take you back to the homepage.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17577654/amazon-prime-day-website-down-deals-service-disruption

But yeah, I just go in normally, I can browse around...

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. That's exactly what happens.

A little retail therapy might do me good today.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Well

I just about do "retail therapy" almost every damn day and was trying to avoid this day. Me and my sisters laugh about all our Amazon deliveries.

[greatauntoftriplets]

22. Same here.

Some of the prices on items on my Wish List are down, but they're there for birthday and Christmas presents. This is supposed to be something for me.

[BumRushDaShow]

21. Looks like it's up now...

[edhopper]

17. But is it showing

Prime Day deals when you browse?

[democratisphere]

4. No excuse IF it is true.

Amazon should have reliable hardcore scalability regardless of volume and hackers.

[edhopper]

7. You mean

like voting machines?

[democratisphere]

36. No excuse for election hacking either. Expensive Security Software

is available to protect data and information. Got to pay if you are going to play.

[apnu]

9. Maybe Amazon should try cloud computing...

... like AWS... Oh wait...

[PoliticAverse]

15. You ever see a cloud on a really windy day? n/t

[RKP5637]

20. ...

[democratisphere]

37. Better yet, Amazon should be using "Crowd Computing".

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Forgot about it probably because

I had heard it would start at 3 pm ET so...

[GoCubsGo]

10. Nope. Just everybody going onto it at once.

It's not completely down. If you shop in an individual department, rather than on the "Prime Day" page, it works fine.

[LanternWaste]

11. I've been streaming seasons 1 & 2 of Victoria on Amazon since 7:30am EST

No slow-downs, no stutters, no breaks.

(not Prime... just my video library)

[Codeine]

25. My Prime streaming is down.

I was watching The Expanse, and now I’m not.

[edhopper]

28. That is a fantastic show

glad they picked it up.

[gratuitous]

12. Oh good

Phew, I was worried that the network news programs were going to have to lead with Trump's obeisance before Putin. But there's a relatable story for Americans: A website crashed, and it was one a lot of people have used. After these messages, we'll be back with more about ordinary Americans watching helplessly as the little progress circle keeps spinning and spinning and spinning. If there's time, we understand something happened in Helsinki today, and we'll devote 10 or even 12 seconds to that. But only if there's time.

[edhopper]

16. I appreciate

the snark.

[snowybirdie]

19. Just ordered

two items at 2:09pm cdt. Slow but it went through

[edhopper]

23. were they

Prime Day deals, or regular buys?

[snowybirdie]

33. Prime

Had to try 3944 times til it went through

[Renew Deal]

24. Everything isn't connected to politics

[Awsi Dooger]

26. Don't discourage him

This thread is hilarious. Made my day. I'm trying to imagine going through life like that, believing that exactly the needed number of votes in specific states are flipped, and an online giant crashes due to something said in a Russian summit.

[edhopper]

32. So you are in

the no collusion camp?

[edhopper]

27. So you are in the

not a coincidence camp?

[hlthe2b]

29. I was determined to use the $10 I got from using the whole foods app

I almost NEVER shop at WHOLE PAYCHECK, but if you got their app, bought something for $10 or more, you got a $10 credit on Amazon Prime for use during their prime day event.

I already knew what I was going to buy (an item costing a big $10.99) so, I guess I made out pretty well. I just have no patience to go through 200 pages of "PRIME DAY" crap... especially with it running so slowly today, so that's my big purchase!

[oberliner]

30. Working fine now

[edhopper]

31. It was

now it's not again.

[Glorfindel]

34. I have been on it three or four times with no problems

Maybe it's just an intermittent thing?

[edhopper]

35. seems to be limited to

th Prime Day sales.