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WordPress.com is currently experiencing a network outage. We’re working on getting things back up ASAP.

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WordPress.com Goes Down, Takes Millions of Blogs With It [UPDATED] | Mashable

WordPress Gives Us The VIP Treatment, Goes Down On Us Again | TechCrunch

As you’ve noticed, we’ve brought the vast majority of blogs back, including yours. We’re currently working on bringing back the rest (including GigaOM), we have to verify their options data first, then the home page, then stats. However if you’re back already like TC is everything should work as normal.

The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs.

Mike and team at TC: you guys have jinxed us, but we still love you. These past two rapid-fire incidents have been cringe-worthy and painful, and I’m sorry they both happened shortly after your switch to VIP.

Errant Code Change Crashes 10 Million Blogs | Data Center Knowledge

The blog hosting service WordPress.com suffered a major outage last night, affecting as many as 10.2 million hosted blogs, including high-profile news sites like TechCrunch and GigaOm. “The cause of the outage was a very unfortunate code change that overwrote some key options in the options table for a number of blogs,” WordPress founder Matt Mullenweg reported in the comments on TechCrunch. Most sites appear to have been offline for about an hour, but it was about six hours before the WordPress.com team posted that operations were “back to full speed.”