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🟡 Fly's Sprites API is playing favorites with a partial outage. Some users getting the full visual experience, others staring at loading spinners. Engineers currently playing 'guess the bug' in production. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Sep 02, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Sprites API Partial Outage

// Status page says

Sep 2 , 23:03 UTC Investigating - We're aware of a problem affecting a subset of Sprites users. We are investigating the source of the issue.

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

https://status.flyio.net/incidents/nnxl4s8dy3yf

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