TECHNOLOGY

Site can't be reached; Yahoo mail down again

The problem reported by most of its users started on Tuesday morning.

In Summary

•The problem reported by most of its users started on Tuesday morning.

•With over 200 million users worldwide, outages will be felt by many even when located only in certain countries.

Email provider Yahoo Mail is experiencing downtime again barely less than a week after users reported downtime.

This has left users unable to sign in and access their emails.

The problem reported by most of its users started on Tuesday morning. Most opted to use the alternative, Gmail, to send emails.

Down Detector, an independent outage monitor recorded an increase in Yahoo Mail down reports from 7 pm on Monday with most Kenyans reporting the problem from Tuesday at 7 am.

Users complaints
Users complaints
Image: Margaret Wanjiru

Although lately, users have complained most about emails not downloading the content, attachments, and it being very slow. This could certainly be due to server issues in different regions.

Message displayed on the desktop when you try to log in.
Message displayed on the desktop when you try to log in.
Image: Margaret Wanjiru

With over 200 million users worldwide, outages will be felt by many even when located only in certain countries.

 

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