steven36 Posted July 26, 2018 Share Posted July 26, 2018 Auntie's outage comes on predicted hottest day of the year Screenshot of BBC website returning HTTP 500 The entire BBC website (less iPlayer) went down briefly this morning. Auntie's online offerings, ranging from free online news to telly and radio listings, recipes and educational content for kids, were all briefly offline. All the BBC's sub-sites were throwing up HTTP 500 errors, complete with a nice little graphic of the BBC test card doctored with a burning background. A reference to the scorchio Great British Summer, perhaps? As Reg readers will know, HTTP 500 is the code for an internal server error. The Beeb press office told us they were "aware of this" outage and added: "We're aware that some people are having problems accessing some parts of our website. We’re trying to fix this as soon as possible." We were told it would be back up in "15 minutes or so" around 15 minutes before publishing this, a remarkably accurate prediction. The only other Beeb-flavoured online thing accessible from Vulture Central this morning was iPlayer. Three years ago the BBC's web presences did more or less the same thing. The corporation declined to say what caused it beyond an "internal system failure". We're looking forward to hearing more detailed information this time round. Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted July 26, 2018 Author Share Posted July 26, 2018 BBC Website's Error Message Has a Creepy Clown Scaring Some Users The clown on BBC's error message is creepy (Photo credits: Twitter/ProudLondoner05) To get an error message on any website is not a very pleasing welcome but technical glitches too cannot be cent per cent avoided. At times when there is some internet problem or a fault from the website itself, you are flashed with some error messages. While those itself are disappointing the one used by BBC are terrifying people. The BBC News website flashes a clown at a backdrop of a burning flame and looks creepy to be pasted on an error message. Instead of informing of the error at the site's end, the clown scares some of the users. The very same clown has been an iconic card of the BBC for their TV programming. The channel has been using the error test card with the clown for decades but on the TV screen, it shows accompanying a girl playing noughts and crosses, which is a rather friendly vision. For the website, however, the flaming backdrop gives the creeps. People on social media were expressing the scary sentiment they shared on seeing the clown on the error message. Take a look at how Twitterati reacted to the scary clown on BBC's error message: Quote Is it just me or does the image on the crashed BBC website look just a little bit menacing? pic.twitter.com/mypvvTPWIP — London John #FBPE (@ProudLondoner05) July 26, 2018 Is there an apocalypse at the BBC? Quote @bbc website down and this apocalyptic clown is filling in for now. pic.twitter.com/jKggYZgZ4w — Sid Peacock (@sid1307) July 26, 2018 The Freaky clowns' here to stay Quote Just when you thought the BBC was safe from freaky clowns... pic.twitter.com/841PmBluQH — Michael Sumner (@TheSumnersTale) July 26, 2018 A few years back people expressed the same concern Quote Loving @BBCNews terrifying website error message. The fiery clown apocalypse is evidently nigh. pic.twitter.com/0VufX6sBMN — Dr Kate Devlin (@drkatedevlin) March 14, 2015 The same thoughts have been expressed in the past but the channel doesn't seem to want to change it. During an error back in 2015, people were speculating it was some hacker trying to mess with the audience. People have been calling the clown as 'demonic' and well, it does look like one. What do you think about this supposed error message mascot used by the reputed site? Do you find it just funny or equally creepy? Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luisam Posted July 27, 2018 Share Posted July 27, 2018 Probably "IT" is the responsible for the website error! That bozo is blocking BBC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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