When it was down my thought was "damnit, I'll actually have a productive workday now."

Next time you can avoid that fate by opening HN in a private browsing (or whatever your browser calls its equivalent) window. This outage, like the vast majority of HN outages, only affected logged in requests.

I suppose you could also just clear your HN cookies in regular browsing window, but then when they fix it you'd have to log in again.

	▲	dpoloncsak 14 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Huh. Dunno why, but when it failed on Firefox I tried Chrome, and it worked. I wrote it off as a Mozilla issue, but this would better explain that I think
	▲	neom 14 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Is it my imagination or did they used to automatically serve you a logged out page when it was down?
	▲	ycombinator_acc 11 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I couldn't access it in private or regular.

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dwa3592 15 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

hahaha