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Did Deals.Woot just fall down and go boom?

Ironically, I was just about to post a question about how D.W has been really slow for at least the weekend and today - how it was taking 20-40 seconds to click on a deal and go to the comments page, etc. And how this was true at home and work, and all other sites were very fast.

As I went to click "Add a question", D.W. went down for the count. For about 5-10 minutes.

I hope this means the slowness is fixed, that would be worth it :)

by tsfisch
asked 4 months ago

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Looks like there was a small rollback too.

panthiest
4 months ago

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I think d.w. has always been the woot baby that was dropped on it's head a few too many times.

meh3884
4 months ago

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