As of 6pm EST, the Tumblr social blogging service has been down. Approximately 16hrs later, it’s still down, displaying a message on the site that says “We’ll be back shortly.” Last I checked, 16hrs is quite a far cry from “shortly.” Early on, Tumblr fans across the Web took to their Twitters, Facebooks, and even FriendFeeds to express their displeasure in being denied from what many see as their main source of entertainment on the Internet. Much of the language is definitely NSFW.
Shortly after news broke about the outage, Tumblr responded on their Twitter account, saying: “We’re working quickly to recover from a major issue in one of our database clusters. We’re incredibly sorry for the inconvenience.”
If it’s taking this long to fix a database issue, I’m thinking their may be some loss of information. Cross your fingers, Tumblr fans.
via CenterNetworks, The Next Web