Crunchyroll down today: What's wrong with streaming platform? How to solve issues amid massive outage
Hindustan Times • • technology
Key Points:
- Crunchyroll is experiencing widespread issues, with users reporting buffering, login failures, playback problems, and inability to load episodes or access the site/app.
- The company has not yet responded to the outage, and its server status page shows no reported problems.
- The outage may be linked to high traffic from the Winter anime season and year-end binges, or possible backend/CDN issues involving services like AWS or Cloudflare.
- There is no evidence of a DDoS attack or hacking; the problems appear more consistent with server overload or regional connectivity glitches.
- Users are advised to try troubleshooting steps such as clearing cache, switching networks, logging out and back in, restarting devices, or reinstalling the app.
