BBC websites GO TITSUP – Auntie blames 'internal system failure'

The BBC is suffering a major outage, after its websites – including News and the public service broadcaster's iPlayer system – buckled in the past hour. It's unclear, at time of publication, what was behind the Beeb's technical woes. An unknown number of people attempting to visit various online BBC services were greeted with …

[Zog_but_not_the_first]

Clarkson?

Punched the server?

[Captain DaFt]

Re: Clarkson?

Some people blame Clarkson, some claim it was hackers, But everyone else knows it was... The Stig.

[Anonymous Coward]

Football

The BBC sports football page is crap anyway - too slow and too much going on as with all these types.

Try 'livescore' - I have been using it for at least 16 years:

http://www.livescore.com/soccer/england/

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Football

You'd think that from all of these results sites that I can find one in which Newcastle United actually do win a game!

AC - Because I don't need the pity^d^d^d^d abuse

[Anonymous Coward]

Finally

Got to read about the wheels for the supersonic car: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31845234#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

It's enough to give you an organism!

[Mage]

Re: Finally

I'm curious ... what sort of organism?

Like algae or wood lice?

[phil dude]

Re: Finally

ahhh, the hot teacher. The opportunity to be wrong in so many ways...

Paris, obviously wrong every time...

P.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Finally

Tiefenbrun: a fine Scottish engineering name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivor_Tiefenbrun

[James 51]

Was just able to go to www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer and start watch the 6 nations streaming.

[Anonymous Coward]

In such times, fire up the Android and into the Catch Up TV app and the match is on there.

[Mage]

also

http://www.bbc.com/news/ was down too.

[Z80]

I even resorted to the Text only link on the error 500 page only to be given a message along the lines of "we don't do that any more".

[Cliff]

500 Error

In fairness, isn't that the best 500 image you've seen in a while?

[Trigonoceps occipitalis]

Re: 500 Error

Not seen it. I'm with TalkTalk and they serve a page of helpful* links instead.

*For ultra low values of helpful.

[ideapete]

Beeb is

We are the BBC we are a technical problem - so there

[Doctor Syntax]

Maybe they should have shown a potter's wheel or maybe a small girl playing noughts & crosses on a blackboard.

[Anonymous Coward]

I miss the test card. I also miss ceefax. The digital text stuff we have these days is inferior in every way. Back in the old days, you'd press the text button, and it'd appear. These days, you press the text button, and you wait 5 - 10 seconds. Then when it appears, there is way less info than there was in the old days of teletext. I'm fairly sure this isn't just nostalga from me : ceefax and oracle were better than the modern equivalents.

[Trainee grumpy old ****]

Wonder if anyone will come up with

"This just goes to show why we need more Digital!"

[ashdav]

Radio Feeds

I just wish they would sort out the radio feeds (all of them) so they don't cut off after 30-60 secs.

They never used to so obviously they've been "IMPROVED".

[TheProf]

Re: Radio Feeds

I use a web browser to listen to the Popmaster quiz on Radio 2 every weekday at 10:30am. I can't say that I've had any real trouble for ages. (With the streaming. My pop knowledge is 50%.) Oh wait, once last week I had to use a 'real' radio but that's the only instance in many months.

[Ken Moorhouse]

If the Beeb were in the cloud

They could say they had a cirrus problem