{"id":95584,"date":"2022-04-22T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/hulu-down-as-users-report-issues-accessing-playback\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T08:29:59","slug":"hulu-down-as-users-report-issues-accessing-playback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/hulu-down-as-users-report-issues-accessing-playback\/","title":{"rendered":"Hulu Down as Users Report Issues Accessing Playback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Hulu went down for an unknown number of users on Thursday evening, which naturally led to #HuluDown trending on Twitter for several hours. No explanation for the outage has been provided at this time but the outage appears to be widespread, as confirmed by several  staff.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/downdetector.com\/status\/hulu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Downdetector<\/a>, which offers real-time updates regarding outages for online platforms, Hulu experienced a spike of user-reported issues beginning around 5 p.m. PST. Its data shows a spike of more than 61,000 reported complaints.<\/p>\n<p>The online monitoring site reported issues affecting users across the country, with roughly two-thirds of users citing video streaming issues. People also had trouble accessing the Hulu app and website.<\/p>\n<p>Hulu\u2019s website currently reads that it is \u201ctemporarily unavailable.\u201d The error message prompts users to try refreshing the page or go back to its home page.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tpd-read-more-container\" style=\"border-top:1px solid #e0e0e0;border-bottom:1px solid #e0e0e0; padding-top:15px;padding-bottom:15px; display:flex;margin-bottom:1.5em;margin-top:1.5em;\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hulu-Down-as-Users-Report-Issues-Accessing-Playback.png\" alt=\"\u2018Ghosts&#039;: Rose McIver Breaks Down Her Favorite Season 1 Moments and How That Curse Might Continue to Haunt the B&amp;B\" style=\"position: absolute;top: 0;left: 0;width: 100%;height: 100%;-o-object-fit: cover;object-fit: cover;\" title=\"\"><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Naturally, frustrated users took to Twitter to lament the platform\u2019s outage, with some citing that they were in the midst of a watch party and others joking that they tried in vain to figure out the issue on their end, such as by resetting their Wi-Fi.<\/p>\n<p>Many shared meme reactions to the outage, as well as poked fun at the company\u2019s seemingly slow response to the problem. Some Twitter users took to the platform\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/disneyplus\/status\/1516084140159950860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">latest tweet<\/a> to flag the issue. \u201cBro fix your sh\u2014,\u201d one wrote plainly.<\/p>\n<p>While the platform did not respond in time for publication to \u2019s request for comment, a rep for Disney Streaming Services, which operates Hulu, told <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/digital\/news\/hulu-down-problems-streaming-1235238599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Variety<\/a> in a statement that they are \u201caware of a technical issue impacting Hulu. We are working to resolve it quickly.\u201d An estimated timeline for troubleshooting was not given.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See further reactions below:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hulu went down for an unknown number of users on Thursday evening, which naturally led to #HuluDown trending on Twitter for several hours. No explanation for the outage has been provided at this time but the outage appears to be widespread, as confirmed by several staff. According to Downdetector, which offers real-time updates regarding outages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":95585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Hulu-Down-as-Users-Report-Issues-Accessing-Playback.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}