This immediately startled the staff awake.
A system crash is a major issue for a sales platform, as it can cause the entire platform to collapse, resulting in a significant impact.
The staff immediately called the programmers.
At the same time, everyone who had just clicked on the sales link to place an order suddenly saw their computer screen go black.
Chu Group Family Group Chat --
[ Chu Family Cousin: What's going on? My screen seems to be freezing.]
[Uncle Chu Family: Don't worry, it's probably a website bug. It should be fixed soon.]
[ Xiao Fangfang: Who runs this sales website? Does anyone know them? Contact the person in charge and fix it quickly, so as not to delay Xiao Yu and Chu Chen's magazine sales.]
Just as everyone was complaining about how the platform had crashed, the programmers began frantically working overtime to investigate the cause of the system malfunction.
The final conclusion is that it seems the influx of too much user traffic into the GI Magazine sales link at the same time caused the server to crash due to overload.
Generally speaking, the platform will allocate traffic accordingly, and there shouldn't be any major issues under normal circumstances.
Unless there are major holidays or events that cause a surge in user traffic, programmers don't need to work overtime to maintain stable server operations.
But how could a magazine launch today generate such a huge amount of traffic?
Thanks to the programmers working overtime to maintain it, the website returned to stability within a minute.
The magazine sales page, which had been a black screen just moments before, reappeared.
Fans who had been waiting around quickly returned to their computer screens and began placing orders like crazy.
Then...
The sales page froze again, and the sales status of GI Magazine changed to "sold out" within a second.
This time, netizens and fans couldn't help but start complaining.
[Damn, I just clicked the link and it already showed that it's sold out. The website must be down again, right?]
[What's going on today? This website keeps crashing. I just wanted to buy a magazine.]
[Can you please fix the website properly? It's so crashed, it's really ruining my shopping experience.]
More and more netizens saw the "[Sold Out]" label in the upper right corner as soon as they clicked on the link.
These people looked at the time in bewilderment. It had only been two minutes since sales started at 9:00 AM, and they were already sold out?
That can't be right, this stupid website must have crashed again.
Those who come to buy the magazine at this time are basically loyal fans. Seeing the website having one problem after another, they were immediately furious and started complaining and discussing it on Weibo.
Inside the Chu Family villa.
Chu Yu frowned and refreshed the sales page several times, only to find that it was always marked as sold out. He naturally assumed that the website was probably down and hadn't been fixed yet.
She reluctantly put down the mouse and rubbed her wrist.
At this moment, Chu Chen came downstairs humming a little tune, looking relaxed.
Chu Yu immediately looked up and glanced over, "What are you doing downstairs? The website might be fixed soon, remember to grab a few more books."
Chu Chen paused, a slight look of confusion on his face. "What website is fixed?"
"The online shopping website where we sell the magazine, didn't it crash? I refreshed it several times and it still shows as sold out."
Hearing this, Chu Chen was also a little confused.
"But... it already shows the order was successfully placed on my end, right? It didn't crash, did it?"
Chu Yu: "???"
What the heck?
Soon after, similar situations appeared on Weibo.
Netizens who initially thought the website had crashed are now furiously criticizing the shopping site.
Meanwhile, another group of netizens who had successfully placed orders could only look on the various comments online complaining about the website crashing, and began to wonder if their order success notifications were also due to a bug caused by the website crashing.
[It's been four minutes, why isn't the website fixed yet? GI Magazine is going to suffer a huge loss; they'll lose at least two thousand copies.]
[Just a quick question, if the website is down, why does it show my order as successfully placed?]
Fans fiercely criticizing the website:??
Has someone successfully placed an order?
Just as online opinions were in chaos, Xu Ruiqiu also received news that the website appeared to have crashed.
The website crash directly impacted magazine sales.
Do you have the website administrator's phone number? I need to contact them in person.
While the magazine's editors were frantically trying to find out the website manager's contact information, the other party proactively called Chu Ruiqiu first.
"Hello, are you Editor-in-Chief Xu of GI Magazine? I am Jiang Taolin, the head of the headquarters of the Stockpile Shopping Network. We are very sorry for today's situation. It was indeed an oversight on our website's part, and we hope you can forgive us."
After hearing such a sincere apology from the other party's representative, Xu Ruiqiu could no longer afford to be unreasonable and lose her temper.
She frowned and said seriously, "It's nothing, but I hope your website can fix the website crash as soon as possible, otherwise our GI Magazine's sales today will be greatly affected."
Jiang Taolin, who was on the other side, paused for a moment upon hearing this.
Several seconds later, he continued, "But... your magazine is sold out."
Xu Ruiqiu: "??"
Jiang Taolin continued gently, "I called you to discuss this matter. Our website genuinely didn't anticipate such a large influx of users from your magazine, which caused a brief website crash."
"Then, due to a program crash, the real-time inventory data and the sales link failed to synchronize, resulting in an accidental order quantity exceeding the current inventory."
Xu Ruiqiu, whose brain had suddenly short-circuited, didn't quite understand. "What do you mean?"