edited 8/26/11 4:40pm: Clear your cookies for Netflix. Cookies store passwords and other information for websites. If you don’t want to clear all your cookies, you can check your browsing history and right-click (in Firefox) on the site in the list and ‘Forget this site’. It will look different on other browsers, but the idea is the same.
As September 1, and the new Netflix pricing, approaches, many people I’ve talked to are ditching the DVD portion of their Netflix subscription.
I find it interesting that since last night I’ve seen this on Netflix’s homepage:
Are they trying to prove that streaming is not reliable? It’s just on the website; my 360 is still streaming fine. Will the website have improvements? Is Netflix going to surprise us with a Watch Instantly library that includes more than low-budget movies from the early 90s? Is this another attack from Anonymous?
Whatever the cause for the outage, have you seen downrightnow.com? For any website, you can visit this site instead of hitting refresh over and over again (if you’re like me). downrightnow can help you diagnose if the site is really down or if it’s simply on your end of things.
For simple “is it up or down” checks, I usually use http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com, simple, to the point, and one of the better results of the trend a couple of years ago to create domain names that serve to answer a question (isitchristmas.com is, of course, my other favorite). Of course, it won’t tell you whether or not Netflix is being their unreliable selves, unless netflix.com goes down completely.
That’s right! I was trying to remember which site it was you showed me.