Fark is one of my favorite funny places on the Internet, both because it speaks to my fondness for wordplay in the service of even low-brow humor and because the site has been kind enough to link to a lot of my Buzzblog silliness over the years.
So I thought I’d share with you Fark’s 502 Bad Gateway error page, which I’ve seen from time to time, including a few minutes ago:
Five Oh Two
Fark blew up trying to retrieve / … most likely the front-end web servers are up but the back-end ones aren’t. Most of the time, that’s because we’re simply in the middle of restarting after a software update.
Try again in about 30 seconds and things should start behaving again.
If this message persists for more than a few minutes, check our outage page to see if there are any known issues.
Everything is back to normal now … or at least as normal as they get on Fark.
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