Why the site has been down intermittently..

We are trying to optimize the cache for better economics of scale, also trying to fix the problem where you keep seeing read articles when you first start reading news.

Site updates finished..

Some major site updates have been done which should significantly improve the performance and the stability of the site. I can already see it is much faster than before and things work a better.

More changes will come but major changes are done for now.

Site being updated...

Please expect some downtime, we are debugging some issues and fixing them starting a few hours from now.

Massive performance updates under the hood

In the past few days we have pushed massive performance updates under the hood. Everything should be running faster now.

Seeing read articles over and over again?

Last night we pushed out an update to address this problem. It should be much better now. There is a migration process running which should remove all read articles from all users pages in a few hours time.

All Issues have been resolved as of this time

Sorry for the downtime. As of this time, all issues have been resolved.

Some site issues currently

There have been some site issues since yesterday. We are on it.

 

[Update] 10:29 PM EST

We are rolling out an update which should fix the issue soon.

[Update] 11/22/2013 7:31 PM EST
We continue to fix issues. It is more complex than expected and Azure is not helping.

[Update] 11/23/2013 12:08 AM EST
Continuing to fix issues. Expect site downtime.