'Numerous fixes' get Digg.com back in service
Company says outage of several hours caused by 'known bugs'
April 7, 2008 12:00 PM ETComputerworld - Social news-ranking site Digg.com was out of service for several hours until it was fixed late this afternoon.
In a blog post this afternoon, Digg's Eli White said that the outage was caused by "known bugs," but he did not elaborate.
"We know that we are currently having some issues on Digg at the moment," White noted just prior to the return of the social network. "Submissions, commenting, Digging and other actions may fail. We have a crack team assigned to it and will be making numerous fixes as soon as possible to get Digg back to 100% for ya. Please bear with us."
Digg declined to provide any additional details about the outage.
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