Craigslist experiences listings outage

Updated at 11:43 a.m. PDT to report that the site appears to be operational again.

Internet bulletin board Craigslist experienced an outage Sunday morning of at least a couple hours that prevented users from accessing listings pages.

Instead of seeing housing or job listings, visitors to the site were greeted with a message that said, "Unable to process request, please try again." However, the entire site didn't appear to be affected, as basic site information pages are still accessible.

The site's system status page reported that it had recognized the outage around 9 a.m. PDT: "we're poking around for a fix (vigorously accelerated poking)." Full access to the site appeared to have been restored about three hours later, but some users scattered around the country reported continued problems with access.

The cause of the outage was not reported, and calls to Craigslist representatives for comment were not immediately returned.

[cooperalex2004]

Minneapolis Craigslist Site Still Won't SHow Listings, just the main page. What is even more pathetic is the "System Status" link on the main page hasn't been updated since July 25th...

[cooperalex2004]

Appears to be working now but only on certain pages. When I click an ad it loads but no text from the ad appears. Why is it so hard to keep the site up like every other website?

[cactuschick]

It is 2:14 p.m. and CL is still down! Please ... i need my CL fix for the day :)

[terminalblue]

St. Louis Craigslist just went down....
And i cant even rant or rave about it.

[HoustonMo]

It's still down in Houston too...driving me nuts, I had a lot of stuff I wanted to look for today on my day off!

[michialt]

Not like anyone actually runs the craigslist servers. The people that run it could care less if it works or not.

[pottermoon]

Hell,
Cali is close enough to Seattle's Hub and we can't still get connected. Why , oh why , oh why can't a simple webpage / website work in this day and frickin age?

[Demolition]

It appears that all of Craigslist Canada (craigslist.ca) is still down. The main page appears, but clicking any regional link results in the "Unable to process request, please try again." message.

[cooperalex2004]

System Status Page now says:

247: incorrectamundo - various pages down, forums borked
Updated Sun, Aug 10 - 10:10 PDT
starting Sunday morning around 9 am PDT
we're poking around for a fix

(vigorously accelerated poking)

[kayaktony]

You message board dorks crack me up....

You are complaining about a FREE website being down??? Maybe you should ask for your money back. :) Better yet, take the outage and your withdrawal anxiety as a sign that you need to push away from the computer and get out into the real world.

I have seen people addicted to heroin, and I have seen people addicted to what I call The Idiot List....Same symptoms...I bet there are people freaking out across the nation because they are separated from their "friends" on the message boards. Dorks can't get "dates" for 150 "roses"..... Cheapskates can't find a free sofa....Socially retarded people can't talk to their "friends" on the rants and raves board.

Why do people get so hooked on craigslist? Are there that many people that are friendless and lacking in socialization skills?


Get lives, people.....

[milesjameson]

Craigslist has lots of problems. The worst is that there are no reviews of sellers and service providers. I have found Angie's List to be a much better experience so far.

[benjaminstraight]

Boo. Craigslist rocks!

[bruceslog]

feel better ?

[trahob]

Craigs List has a lot of fraud going on
When you publish someone as a fraud your listing is gone within minutes after it is published.
Come on ,like the old saying goes "you don't get something for nothing"
I think ebay is the way to go if you want buyer/seller protection.
Most sellers and buyers on Craigs are honest but you get the A--Holes that ruin it for everyone else
Mickel