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08 Sep 04:47

SF-Based Square and Cash App Experience Widespread Outages, Leading to Widespread Headaches

by Jay Barmann
SF-Based Square and Cash App Experience Widespread Outages, Leading to Widespread Headaches

If you were trying to pay for something with Square or Cash App today and had a problem, you're not alone. Square, and its Cash App, both apps were experiencing major issues Thursday.

The website Downdetector was showing over 18,000 reports of Square being down on Thursday just after noon. Similarly, Cash App was being reported down by more than 8,000 users and counting.

"Our engineers are all actively working on a fix to address this disruptions [sic] and have now received confirmation that Balance and Transfers are currently affected by this disruption," Square said in a statement.

CashApp tweeted, "We're aware of an issue that's affecting multiple features of the app and are actively investigating. Please visit https://status.cash.app for the most recent updates."

An update at that link as of 2:51 p.m. PT says, "Your patience is greatly appreciated while we work to investigate this issue. As a reminder, please do not attempt to log out of your Cash App account in the meantime."

Bet that message really made it to many users!!

It's unclear whether this rolling into a full-blown crisis, and the tech pubs haven't even reported on it yet. KRON4 was the first outlet to report on the outages locally.

It is clear these outages are having real-world consequences in the age of widespread digital payments for everything.

Square changed its name to Block back in late 2021, signaling co-founder Jack Dorsey's increasing focus on crypto and blockchain technology. Cash App, originally called Square Cash, first launched in 2013.

Meanwhile today, Dorsey has been retweeting shit from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and increasingly right-wing (or anti-left-wing) culture warrior Glenn Greenwald.

Update: Square's services were back up and running Friday morning, and the company said it was "slowly recovering" and would be processing all offline payments.

Photo: Clay Banks/Unsplash

11 Aug 04:49

Yeah I’ve Been Feeling Pretty Good Lately Except For

by Daniel Lavery
Yeah I’ve Been Feeling Pretty Good Lately Except For
Yeah I’ve Been Feeling Pretty Good Lately Except For

Oh, hey man – how's it going? – Yeah, I'm doing okay – I don't know –

I don't really feel like I have an optometrist anymore – yeah and lately I've been really craving ice – like a lot of ice –

you know how they say you can tell you're in a dream by counting the number of fingers on people's hands, or the lines on an analog clock? – And if it's a dream you'll know because there's not the right number, or they're not in the right place? – that doesn't even work when I'm awake –

I haven't been able to catch a sunset in a while – I don't think I really know how to unlock the extraordinary anymore – and lately I've been finding fingernails in really weird places – but yeah I'm pretty good – my breath has been really persistent – handwriting sometimes feel really urgent but nothing other than that –

I don't think I could survive drowning, really – I'm having trouble hearing bassoons, even when I really concentrate – I think I might have hit an albatross with my car last night – and lately I've been changing allegiance a lot – I just keep changing allegiances –

Lately whenever I go to the circus it's all accidents –

I've been passing like night lately from land to land – I don't really feel like I'm hanging on to any of the old ways of summer fun in the mountains either – I get the feeling that my new lineups aren't turning heads anymore – I'm not as well known at seafood restaurants as I used to be – I guess I've mostly stopped perceiving things as a chain of events –

I don't know – feels like seeing a spectacle doesn't really awe me anymore or even elicit contempt – I've stopped lighting up even when I rotate – but otherwise I'm good, pretty good.

[Image via Wikimedia Commons]