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🟠 Fly's Sprites feature went from 'just San Jose' to 'everywhere' faster than a contagion. API calls getting the silent treatment while engineers pretend their mitigations are actually doing something. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Sep 23, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Partial Sprites outage

// Status page says

Sep 23 , 20:26 UTC Update - This issue is now occurring on regions other than SJC. We are still working on a fix. Sep 23 , 18:47 UTC Identified - The issue has been identified and we are rolling out mitigations. Sep 23 , 18:44 UTC Investigating - We are investigating intermittent API failures for use

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.flyio.net/incidents/xjycpyjf66bg

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