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?
toomuchtodo
5 months ago
"Turn it off or make it hard to cancel until the angry people go away."
toomuchtodo
5 months ago
Additional citation:
Disney Plus Subscribers Quit in Droves Over Jimmy Kimmel Axe - https://www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-subscribers-quit-jimmy-... - September 19th, 2025