Correction. It's the 11th minute for everyone. Here's how I'll describe it; It's basically the only minute in the chat where it goes to a complete stop. Your messages will send as soon as it hits the 12th minute mark. Anyone else is free to test it out for themselves.
A status update on the crashes or anything else we should know would be appreciated.
They’re back! Crashes seem to be happening when the clock hits 13 in the minutes, two of them just happened at 5:12 and 6:12 PM. (I’m from the UTC-5 time zone.) Whatever you guys did seemed to fix it temporarily I think cause they weren’t happening ever since the last update the tech did.
Today we completed purging the plasma conduits and reconfigured the forward shields to better withstand phaser fire. This should also help the chat run a bit more stable.
We will continue making such incremental improvements.
From what I noticed it’s going on when the clock hits 52 or 53. (Least for me in UTC-5.) It’s not like the last one where the refresh was like.. super long though. It just buffers for like a minute or 2 then your back in. Not sure if it’s happened today, but it was doing that yesterday.
Our commando of cyborg operators report that they adjusted the DNA of the server (what?) and that the new phenotype is running stable now. They continue monitoring for anomalies and the probable rise of sentient AI, heralding the dawn of a new era and the twilight of our species. (Good thing that the cyborgs are on our side and never require sleep!)
Just a data point: Venus has crashed today at the following times, and almost certainly more. Dunno if there's some hourly background job that's killing it or a memory leak, but it's pretty disruptive. All times EST, US east coast....
KnockOutNolan
11 days agoCrashes every 12th minute of every hour ESt, lasts for about 2 minutes. Yall had it fixed for a little but the crashes are so back
Felicia Sara Hardy
9 days ago(In reply to this)
Correction. It's the 11th minute for everyone. Here's how I'll describe it; It's basically the only minute in the chat where it goes to a complete stop. Your messages will send as soon as it hits the 12th minute mark. Anyone else is free to test it out for themselves.
A status update on the crashes or anything else we should know would be appreciated.
EJ the Growler
11 days ago(In reply to this)
FWIW, it didn't crash for me - it did lag/hang a little, but I didn't need to reconnect. But yeah - same timing.
Emma Grace Frost
17 days agoSomewhere at around Eastern Standard Timezone, chats 2 hours prior has been lost. Progress and everything. It was a very prolonged crash than usual.
Viktor LP
18 days agoIt’s happened to me several times between yesterday and today, always when the clock hits 03 minutes
Yasmina Gutiérrez
17 days ago(In reply to this)
Same problem just now at 2:03 AM EST.
Kamryn Klein
2026-08-11 01:1508/10/26 - It happened between 7:12pm and 7:14pm
Viktor LP
2026-08-10 07:43It happened to me several times yesterday, and always when the clock showed 12 minutes
SteveS32123
2026-08-10 15:02(In reply to this)
Yes, this happened to me and my partner too on Saturday, it did seem the magic time is now :12...
Yasmina Gutiérrez
2026-08-09 20:16Another happened right about 2:14 PM, EST Timezone.
Megan Frost
2026-08-08 01:19They’re back! Crashes seem to be happening when the clock hits 13 in the minutes, two of them just happened at 5:12 and 6:12 PM. (I’m from the UTC-5 time zone.) Whatever you guys did seemed to fix it temporarily I think cause they weren’t happening ever since the last update the tech did.
EJ the Growler
2026-08-08 01:42(In reply to this)
Happened at 12 minutes past on the hours before that, too.
The Tech
2026-07-30 23:23Today we completed purging the plasma conduits and reconfigured the forward shields to better withstand phaser fire. This should also help the chat run a bit more stable.
We will continue making such incremental improvements.
Kamryn Klein
2026-07-29 04:33It's still an issue! Seems to be getting worse.
The Tech
2026-07-30 14:37(In reply to this)
Can you please elaborate?
Help me help you!
Megan Frost
2026-07-30 16:17(In reply to this)
From what I noticed it’s going on when the clock hits 52 or 53. (Least for me in UTC-5.) It’s not like the last one where the refresh was like.. super long though. It just buffers for like a minute or 2 then your back in. Not sure if it’s happened today, but it was doing that yesterday.
Support Operator
2026-07-22 21:26Thank you, everyone, for reporting this issue.
We are aware of the situation and are working on resolving it.
We will provide more information if and when we can at a later point.
For now, if you need more information or have comments about the situation, we ask that you open a Support ticket.
Thanks for understanding,
Support Operator
Megan Frost
2026-07-21 21:49It’s been crashing every hour since it seems like. Whenever the clock hits 39. Adding to Matt’s earlier comment. Been doing it all day.
Megan Frost
2026-07-22 16:15(In reply to this)
And since my last post site Data was erased with one of the crashes according to other users.
Zoey1
2026-07-22 16:29(In reply to this)
I lost a post on one of the federations i am in, it was regarding the crashes on the 39th minute of every hour.
Zoey1
2026-07-21 23:41(In reply to this)
It just crashed on the 39 minute. They are needing to sort it out. Someone needs to put money into the meter or something
Johanna Amalia
2026-07-22 10:01(In reply to this)
It does look like this is very true happened exactly at 9:39 am CET
Matthias999
2026-07-21 17:41The crashes seem to be popping back up again. Had three I was here for yesterday. Another today at 11:39 am EST.
Matthias999
2026-07-21 17:41(In reply to this)
Main site seems unaffected. Just chat.
The Tech
2026-07-15 08:36Thank you for reporting this issue!
Our commando of cyborg operators report that they adjusted the DNA of the server (what?) and that the new phenotype is running stable now. They continue monitoring for anomalies and the probable rise of sentient AI, heralding the dawn of a new era and the twilight of our species. (Good thing that the cyborgs are on our side and never require sleep!)
--The Tech
EJ the Growler
2026-07-13 22:34Just a data point: Venus has crashed today at the following times, and almost certainly more. Dunno if there's some hourly background job that's killing it or a memory leak, but it's pretty disruptive. All times EST, US east coast....
11:24 am
2:26 pm
3:28 pm
4:29 pm
Yours in debugging,
--EJ