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Auggie

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9. More than 34,000 user-reported outages, apparently ...
Mon Mar 3, 2025, 12:45 PM
Mar 2025

tracked by uptime monitoring site Downdetector less than an hour into the ceremony hosted by Conan O’Brien on Sunday, March 2.

Shortly after the broadcast from Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles began at 4 p.m., viewers took to social media, flooding X to report issues with logging into their accounts, poor video quality and trouble passing Hulu’s new subscriber agreement page, among other problems.

After recovering from that at around 6 p.m., the streaming platform managed to anger viewers even more by ending its broadcast before the awards for best actress and best picture were announced.

(paywall): https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/oscars-hulu-outage-livestream-20198328.php

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