{"id":9597,"date":"2010-08-11T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=9597"},"modified":"2010-08-11T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T00:56:59","slug":"first-offline-now-unstable-japans-no-1-social-network-mixi-in-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/first-offline-now-unstable-japans-no-1-social-network-mixi-in-trouble\/","title":{"rendered":"[Update 2] First Offline, Now Unstable: Japan&#8217;s No. 1 Social Network Mixi In Trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mixi-logo.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5413\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/mixi-logo.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"41\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Update:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> <\/strong>August 12, 11.30am: Mixi just issued <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2010\/0812\/3477\">a press release<\/a> saying the service is back up. Apparently, Mixi had serious Memcached server trouble.<br \/>\n<strong>Update:<\/strong><br \/>\nMixi seems to have serious problems. As of August 11, 7.15pm Japanese time, the site is still down after it was accessible again for a few hours (as reported below).<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the message all Mixi users trying to log in currently see (&#8220;no access possible at this point&#8221;, &#8220;your data is safe&#8221;, &#8220;please wait a while&#8221;\/click to enlarge):<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9602\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Picture-31.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Original article:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixi.jp\">Mixi<\/a> (Japan&#8217;s leading social network) isn&#8217;t really known to get into serious technical trouble. But yesterday <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/info\">at 5.20 pm<\/a>, the site unexpectedly went down for all users. I myself had no luck when I tried to access my account at 7pm and was shown the &#8220;Please wait a while to be able to access our site again&#8221;-message below instead (click to enlarge).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9598\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9598\" style=\"width: 470px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mixi-down.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9598\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/mixi-down.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9598\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mixi down page<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nAt around 11pm yesterday, Mixi COO Aki Harada <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/akiharada\/status\/20800351125\">tweeted<\/a> that the service reached 100% connectivity again, but Mixi just issued another <a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.jp\/release_info.pl?mode=item&amp;id=1037\">press release<\/a> according to which Mixi is still unstable (even though it is still back up). The company also says it&#8217;s currently working on bringing things to normal and that all personal data is safe. Mixi doesn&#8217;t disclose what caused the trouble.<br \/>\nThis wouldn&#8217;t even make the news if Mixi was Twitter, but Mixi is usually always accessible without any problems, which is why the Mixi news even made it to Yahoo Japan&#8217;s top page yesterday (Yahoo Japan is by far the country&#8217;s biggest website).<br \/>\nOn the bright side, Mixi last week <a href=\"http:\/\/eir.eol.co.jp\/EIR\/View.aspx?template=ir_material&amp;sid=6513&amp;code=2121\">reported<\/a> (financial report\/English PDF) that it added one million users since announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/14\/japans-no-1-social-network-now-boasts-20-million-members\/\">20 million accounts back in April this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: August 12, 11.30am: Mixi just issued a press release saying the service is back up. Apparently, Mixi had serious Memcached server trouble. Update: Mixi seems to have serious problems. As of August 11, 7.15pm Japanese time, the site is still down after it was accessible again for a few hours (as reported below). Here&#8217;s&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/first-offline-now-unstable-japans-no-1-social-network-mixi-in-trouble\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">[Update 2] First Offline, Now Unstable: Japan&#8217;s No. 1 Social Network Mixi In Trouble<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[24],"tags":[2342],"class_list":["post-9597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-mixi","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}