Yahoo Is It Down For You?

[Tom Saurus]

I can't seem to get into Yahoo Mail this morning. Is anyone else having problems?

[ProWo]

Online here.
Works as aspected.

[Tom Saurus]

I just was there and it is working for me again. Maybe it was just some server issue or something like that. Thanks for the input.

[Brainiac]

A friend of mine had serious login issues yesterday. He kept getting locked out of his account and at one point was told that his account was no longer available.
He ended up ditching the yahoo account entirely. Yahoo wouldn't even let him create a new account.

[zing269]

From https://www.tomsguide.com/news/live/yahoo-down-live-updates-outage-jan-21-26

A Yahoo spokesperson responded to our request for comment with the following:

“We became aware of issues users were experiencing accessing Yahoo services globally after rolling out a change to our traffic management system. After reverting the change, Yahoo services have fully recovered with the impact lasting less than an hour."

[ListyDoM]

I can't seem to get into Yahoo Mail this morning. Is anyone else having problems?

https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/

and you will know whether it is your problem or everyone else's

[Tom Saurus]

Thank you both for that information. It was kind of scary as I have used Yahoo Mail for over twenty years. You have to make sure you sign in fairly often or they will erase messages in your account and then there was the recent make sure you back up or delete stuff as your space is this much thing.

[ProJiJi]

Just in case it has been forgotten, or nobody cared, or I haven't stated earlier; I'm in Japan.

I am having serious issues with Yahoo, but I don't think my issues are related to what appears to have been a global problem at the Yahoo side of business. In my case, it was just a coincidence that I tried to log into a Yahoo account maybe only 24 hours after their global issue came to light.

As with Tom Saurus' point of reference, I think I have been using Yahoo since the very early days. Certainly for at least twenty years.

I offer that location information because of the time zone situation that brings up.

So after I couldn't log into the account after some hours of trying I finally did a general check on a search engine and saw there was that global issue, but I got the impression there was some hours before Yahoo responded to so many complaints posted all over the Net. That adds to my concerns about that company.

Other concerns I will address in a new thread, once I cool down. After about 48 hours and possibly 5 to 6 hours split into two parts of actual work on the problem I am rather sure I understand the latest trouble I'm having, but location arises again. I think the particular problem I am facing didn't hit us customers here in Japan until about a month or two after it hit y'all in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. BUT that is NOT related to the outage that this thread is concerned about.

BUT, I do have a question that DOES relate here: How long was the outage that this thread relates to? I know that the Yahoo statement was the trouble was only an hour long and that some folks around the world might have trouble for a little longer than others and bla-bla-bla . . . that strikes me as a PR twist to the whole affair.

Does anyone have verified information as to how long certain areas of the planet had this trouble? Does anyone think the "one hour" statement from Yahoo is the truth? I was able to access one Yahoo account between 1300hrs and 1500hrs JST yesterday using a mobile device, so here in Japan I can confirm at least I was able to get into an account through a KDDI window. Not a usual practice and I was a bit surprised it worked.