November 1st, 2008

Stack Overflow Down…

I woke up this morning, showered, and checked Stack Overflow. Like I do every morning except this morning was different, Stack Overflow is down.  What am I going to do to waste time on the computer today, now I really have to focus and have nothing to procrastinate on.  I guess I am going to get more of my book done today.

The weird thing I observed durring this rare outage is something the team probably wants to look in to.  But I received the Yellow Screen of Death for my Firefox and Chrome browsers and their cute kitten for my IE browser.  No matter how many times I refereshed and on how many different computers the same breakdown always happened.  I have included a couple screen shots below to demonstrate.

Well I hope Jeff and team gets the site back up and working soon, also if you have any ideas about what would be causing these different error messages that seem to be browser specific please feel free to speculate below.

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2 Responses to “Stack Overflow Down…”

  1. GSS Says:
    November 2nd, 2008 at 12:00 pm

    There has to be a bit of code checking what user agent/browser the visitor is coming from and then based on that, serve a specific error page. I’ve always got the kitten page using IE.

    Thanks

  2. Randy Says:
    September 4th, 2009 at 4:07 pm

    They appear to be down again, but all I get is 503 error code.