System Crash

[writerkit]

I know it was almost certainly extremely stressful for everyone involved, but the fact that Magnus Archives fandom is numerous and eager enough to completely break Patreon in a manner similar to a DDOS attack just *amuses* me, as does the comment from the producer on Twitter about "due to... voracity the Magnus fandom now technically counts as a DDOS attack."

And this is just the subset of fandom that has paid for early access! The season opener doesn't drop for the rest of us until tomorrow! (I'm quite looking forward to it, although this *is* the same Lovcraftian horror podcast that felt the need to include with the trailer a disclaimer about having written and produced it *before* the pandemic happened, a fact which was much commented-on on Twitter, in the vein of "You know the world is awful when the *Lovecraftian horror podcast* feels the need to state they weren't based on actual events".)

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[writerkit]

Well, it's also known that Patreon *did* go down for everyone at around that time, if you look at Patreon's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/PatreonSupport

Which may or may not be a coincidence.

[jducoeur]

Actually, that's not obvious from the messaging -- they reported "intermittent site issues", which is a far cry from "down for everyone". So the question is, how widespread was that?

It wouldn't be surprising at all if many or all of those reports were coming from followers of this specific campaign, who were irate. It's also quite plausible that other campaigns were running off the same server or cluster and hit issues -- that would be unfortunate but not astonishing. (At the moment, Querki is susceptible to similar effects.)

But "down for everyone" is quite another thing. So far, I haven't seen that that happened, although it's possible...