[losvedir]

Ha, how do you end up reaching for "travel websites"? Like, what is the shared technology that they use that general internet sites don't? I clicked into the comments hoping to learn something interesting about the travel industry (like maybe Airbnb and Expedia and others are all part of some conglomerate - like how many of the dating websites are actually one company).

But, yeah, general infrastructure being down and affecting all kinds of disparate (travel and non-travel) sites makes sense and is boring.

Reminds me of an interesting study where researchers gave a list of numbers with some hidden property and let people ask if other numbers have that property, to try to figure out what it was. And people tend to generate numbers that agree with their hypothesis, to try to confirm it, rather than numbers that disagree, to disprove it. Wish I could find that study.

[D13Fd]

Travel websites actually do use certain shared back-end systems in some cases:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system

[isbvhodnvemrwvn]

And these systems are ancient, think using-proprietary-keyboard-typing-commands-on-a-terminal ancient - and often the only access control is knowing the last name of the traveler, or an 6-8 character password.

[losvedir]

Aha! Very cool, thanks for sharing that.

[jader201]

> and is boring

This is actually helpful to see a lot of unrelated sites affected by (likely) a similar cause. I've had issues with a couple different sites, and it's good to see confirmation that it's not just me.

Particularly since a) the number of affected sites appears to be growing, and b) as the downtime continues to increase.

[chrisgoman]

https://downdetector.com/