Webflow Went Down!

People were really frustrated and very emotional about it. Web flow was down this week uh for well not completely. I thought it was just me. I thought oh it's a new machine and this and that but it was it's been really really bad. So we had um a few not just one apologies from the CEO. So, Web Flow is acknowledging this and it's apparently uh one of their data providers and they specifically said it's not because of uh making new features but they don't know what it is though. Well, they said they are yeah investigating and they are back online mostly but they are still looking. I noticed it as soon as I started playing with Web Flow Cloud. And this I'm like, is it is it a Web Flow Cloud thing? Because I'm I literally, no word of a lie, probably spent about four hours, maybe even more, recording a tutorial yesterday because I just had to wait and builds kept failing and like like backend wouldn't load and stuff like that. I eventually got it recorded. It was very painful. And then I had a job that I actually had to do, but they fixed it in time for this job actually to be fair. Apparently, Framer had an incident as well. So, it wasn't just Webflow. Oh, wow. It wasn't that big. Um, it didn't get, you know, talked about too much, but Framer had an incident as well. What I found interesting, people were really frustrated and very emotional about it. I get it. It happened to me as well, but it was nothing so that I couldn't open something. But I I did have I I did run into some loading issues, but not to the point to like I saw on Twitter, people were quite emotional about at the end of the day, you're paying you're paying a premium for a service and like people do like I don't know. I I definitely see both side. I saw I saw Joseph Barry saying, you know, we should be, you know, everyone has their bad days. And whilst, you know, that's a really nice admirable mindset to go um into this stuff with or to calm yourself down, at the end of the day, this is they're literally costing you and or losing you money. And you pay you pay for this sort of reliability, you know, resilience of an app. So, I I just sort of see both sides. I think I've made a video on this. I've seen Rand make a video on this. One of the reasons why you wouldn't choose Web Flow is because if something goes wrong with Web Flow, your business is down. Like this was the thing that you signed up for. If you did your due diligence before you signed up to Web Flow, you would have watched one of our videos and we would have told you you are signing off a lot of your responsibility or your the reliability of you being able to do your work to Web Flow and they let you down. So, at the end of the day, you're always reliable on something. If you don't, it's mostly on AWS, you relyable on that. If you have your own VPS, you relyable on that. You reliable on that the operating system update correctly that the browser works, that your internet provider works. There's so many dependencies everywhere and it's web flow is badly said just one more where you consider where you like combine a couple of providers into one. I mean, if web flow goes down, it's shitty, but if your VPS provider goes down, you have the same kind of issue. It's like I don't think I know of a single tool in my lifetime which never had an issue. Yeah. I I wonder how it was for the enterprise. I don't know anything about that. Uh if the site was also down the dashboard was down for enterprise as well because that is that is where I assume web flow is making a lot of money and that is that would be really bad to hurt the relationship that they have with their clients. It should be fine. Now this is part of a larger conversation on my show Command AI which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web.