Victim Of Its Own Success: Tumblr Redefines The Concept Of “Back Shortly”

Victim Of Its Own Success: Tumblr Redefines The Concept Of “Back Shortly”: "Boy does it suck to be Tumblr right now. The blogging service has been down for roughly half a day (yes, that would be 12 13 14 hours) now, due to a “major issue in one of its database clusters”. There are no more details available at this point, and a request for more information wasn’t immediately responded to."