Yahoo Mail and website down

worldtraveller

Yahoo is suffering from a major outage this morning with users unable to access the website or Yahoo Mail service.

The issues began at around 7:30 am.

The firm has confirmed the outage with a post on their Twitter support page stating: "You may not be able to access some of our services, including email. Our top priority right now is getting this fixed. We appreciate your patience."

Also unable to access AOL mail, which uses Yahoo servers.

Neil_Jones

This happens semi regularly, its a free service after all. Looking at reports on downdetector and twitter anybody would think the four horsemen of the apocalypse are on the way. I would personally say if email is that important to somebody (work or whatever) they probably shouldn't be using a free service.

Chino

Neil_Jones wrote: »

I would personally say if email is that important to somebody (work or whatever) they probably shouldn't be using a free service.

Are you suggesting that paid-for services never fail?
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/03/01/aws_s3_outage/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/08/18/azure_outage/
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/05/02/microsoft_azure_outage_dns/

[Deleted User]

Neil_Jones wrote: »

This happens semi regularly, its a free service after all. Looking at reports on downdetector and twitter anybody would think the four horsemen of the apocalypse are on the way. I would personally say if email is that important to somebody (work or whatever) they probably shouldn't be using a free service.

I use Gmail and to my knowledge it's never been down, if it has (no doubt everything has been down at some point, paid or not) it's certainly never affected me.

coffeehound

It's back now

coffeehound

Yahoo changed hands recently didn't it? Hope this doesn't represent belt-tightening. I've got 20 years of emails on there.

bubbleyboo

coffeehound wrote: »

It's back now

mine isnt

worldtraveller

coffeehound wrote: »

It's back now

It was for a short time, but it's down again here.

brewerdave

Thank God for this thread - I (foolishly) allowed the latest major update to Win 10 to occur this morning. My immediate assumption was that Windows had broken something .....but no!!

coffeehound

bubbleyboo wrote: »

mine isnt

Mine is a .com suffix so perhaps using a different server?

Nope, spoke too soon, it's still fubar

Neil_Jones

Neil_Jones wrote: »

I would personally say if email is that important to somebody (work or whatever) they probably shouldn't be using a free service.

Chino wrote: »

Are you suggesting that paid-for services never fail?

What I said was if that you are using a free email account for work purposes and it goes down and you then jump on downdetector, twitter and the like and pee and moan that you can't get anything done, then sorry, but that's the way things are.

At least with a paid service there is more incentive to get it up and running again quickly as there may be an uptime guarantee that means its worth throwing shedloads of resources at it to get it going. With Yahoo Mail being primarily a free service (funded by adverts - I know there is such a thing as Ad Free mail but that's only to hide the adverts, its still a free email account at the end of the day) they're only going to miss out on any advert revenue which is miniscule these days anyway.