Stack Overflow Is Down

Even the statuspage is dead <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stackstatus.net&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stackstatus.net&#x2F;</a>

Is anyone else unable to access stack overflow? I&#x27;m getting a black page and an HTTP 418 &quot;I&#x27;m a teapot&quot; response code

Seems like it&#x27;s working sporadically at the moment. The status page worked with one refresh, but the next one error 500.

Seems to be back up. Incident page: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stackstatus.net&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;e380b9bc-9ed2-4672-80e3-d0e090d70d6d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.stackstatus.net&#x2F;incidents&#x2F;e380b9bc-9ed2-4672-80e...</a>

They were migrating to GCP, IIRC. Not sure if this outage is related to that

Mostly the only way to prevent AI bots from scraping your website nowadays

Something like this used to be in the front page of this page and heavily commented. The fact that happens without notice is a testament of how bad SO is nowadays and how LLM has eaten that piece of pie completely.