Hulu Glitch Blocks Customers from Canceling or Making Changes to Their Accounts

1 pointsposted 5 months ago
by ummonk

5 Comments

ummonk

5 months ago

This was reported in July but seems to be happening again

toomuchtodo

5 months ago

Might be because of folks trying to cancel their Hulu because of Kimmel being pulled off the air. ABC and Hulu are both owned by Disney.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/entertainment/life/2025/09/1...

ummonk

5 months ago

That's why I cancelled but I'd be curious about the technical reasons that something like this could happen, given that I'd expect cancellation to not be that much of a load on the servers compared to all the other actions users take on a streaming platform. Perhaps subscription changes go to a specific microservice that got overloaded? Or to an unsharded database that got overloaded?