As fans anxiously awaited the premiere of the final season of the Netflix horror series “Stranger Things,” the network was down for a brief period on Friday as a large number of users logged in to broadcast new episodes, overwhelm the service.
As fans anxiously awaited the premiere of the final season of the Netflix horror series “Stranger Things,” the network was down for a brief period on Friday as a large number of users logged in to broadcast new episodes, overwhelm the service.
More than 14,000 power outages were reported on the global monitoring service Downdetector at midnight, Pacific Time. Netflix declined to comment on the matter, but the matter appears to have been resolved.
Fans of the popular series immediately took to Twitter to express their disappointment. “I’m not just counting down the seconds as if New Year’s Netflix has a #StrangerThings issue,” one fan tweeted the error message.
“Stranger Things 4” has become Netflix’s most popular English-language TV series with 781.04 million hours watched in its first three weeks.
The network, best known for dropping entire seasons at once, has experimented with releasing episodes in “bulk volumes” to attract subscribers for longer periods of time. The first seven episodes of the series aired on May 27.
