← Back to context Comment by cddotdotslash 6 months ago I can recall plenty of times HN has been down. 2 comments cddotdotslash Reply rldjbpin 6 months ago it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API detaro 6 months ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
rldjbpin 6 months ago it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API detaro 6 months ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
detaro 6 months ago the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.
it has already been facing some issues in the past couple weeks. e.g. the "front" page was broken randomly for past dates (like https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2025-05-30 or https://news.ycombinator.com/front?p=2)
as per their api documentation [1], it might be linked to firebase, which might explain this?
[1] https://github.com/HackerNews/API
the API has afaik nothing to do with HN itself, its a read-only copy for API users, not what backs the actual site.