Yet another Hacker News

Revolut down as users report app not working

55 points baal80spam 1 hour ago 27 comments

BoumTAC 1 hour ago | parent

Can we still pay ? I have some shooping to do during my lunch break and I don't want to feel stupid without a way to pay at the checkout.

etatester 1 hour ago | parent

Article mentions app down, which presumably it's not the same part used by MasterCard

danaris 19 minutes ago | parent

From what I've seen—personally and from a variety of online sources—there's intermittent availability of basically everything, which means you might be able to access the app, or you might be able to pay by card, but that's going to change potentially from minute to minute, with an average of somewhere around 10% uptime. (Which, of course, means that you, personally, might just be in the 90% of downtime all the time until it's resolved.)

Take with appropriate seasoning, given its anecdotal nature.

vilius 1 hour ago | parent

I could not pay via Revolut card on Apple Pay this morning. However, the same physical card worked.

Macha 34 minutes ago | parent

My revolut cards (both google pay and actual physical cards) were failing to process payments and had to use my backup card from a traditional bank instead

petre 9 minutes ago | parent

I tried to pay gas today with Revolut plastic. Didn't work, used another card.

rvz 1 hour ago | parent

Once again, blockchains that use USDC continue to run without any serious outages for years. I just paid for an item with USDC (using Phantom Wallet) right now and there are many other examples of this.

No need to wait for a bank and it doesn't matter the blockchain, as long as it supports USDC and you have a crypto wallet, the payment goes through.

Stripe knows this already and crypto payments will be here for a very very long time as they already are today.

IneffablePigeon 54 minutes ago | parent

What on earth are you talking about my guy

robtaylor 1 hour ago | parent

Its a bigger thing https://status.cloud.google.com

Imustaskforhelp 50 minutes ago | parent

Thanks, your comment was the first one which linked the two.

Revolut is the biggest private company in all of Europe.

Perhaps it’s me but I still find it kinda wild that a single power outage in London can shut down Google DC and it can lead to Revolut shutting down for some time disrupting much of the economy which depended upon it

Perhaps this could’ve been prevented, which makes me wonder how much of code written at Revolut is ai generated and its ai policy?

azuriten 29 minutes ago | parent

If their infrastructure is tightly coupled to a cloud provider in a single region then that's what they need to be work on and not necessarily their AI policy.

cromka 18 minutes ago | parent

> Revolut is the biggest private company in all of Europe.

As in not publicly traded? That's surprising, to be honest. How is that even measured?

monneyboi 57 minutes ago | parent

I just learned the embarassing way that my ability to pay for groceries depends on the livelyness of europe-west2.

OsrsNeedsf2P 32 minutes ago | parent

The uptime of cash in my wallet is pretty close to 100%. It's extremely rare that I have to use it, but it's incredibly convenient to have each time it's required

comboy 19 minutes ago | parent

If you look at uptime as discrete set of events when you need to pay for something, my cash uptime is not looking great nowadays. "Sorry I can't break that" or machines accepting coins which you don't have at hand. Just to be clear I despise CC companies the system is broken in many ways.

tossandthrow 17 minutes ago | parent

You are aware that many places don't accept cash, right?

tremon 10 minutes ago | parent

How does that affect the uptime of their wallet?

kakacik 4 minutes ago | parent

Well its about time (a decade ago) to ignore those places and be vocal about it.

Contactless is all fine and dandy but straight out refusal to handle cash is a big negative for the users, which is the only perspective anybody cares about. On top of obvious long term massive loss for society and personal freedom. Don't feed the actors that are harming you / us.

Asyakguen 18 minutes ago | parent

Agree,so annoying

afhammad 57 minutes ago | parent

Good opportunity to share some competitive resilience: https://monzo.com/blog/tolerating-full-cloud-outages-with-mo...

pllbnk 51 minutes ago | parent

Not saying it's a vibe-coding issue. But I just imagine a scenario where a global service experiences significant disruption due to a vibe-coded release. No person understands how it works or is able to figure out in less than a week because no human has ever glanced at the code for a couple years, so the decision is taken to unleash LLM agents directly on production to fix the issue. Of course, one of these agents has to do some database migration but there is a breaking change, so they launch a sub-agent to deal with that; the sub-agent doesn't have a full context, so it decides that the easiest way would be to drop the database and so it does. The latest _successful_ backup took place a month ago.

$100B value down the drain.

piltdownman 35 minutes ago | parent

Intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region != vibecoding

comboy 23 minutes ago | parent

[citation needed]

Ecstatify 18 minutes ago | parent

Revolut needs a way to proactively notify users when their cards aren’t working. It’s so frustrating having to go to Reddit just to find out that Revolut is down.

GettingOld 13 minutes ago | parent

Google cloud is having issues in London impacting HSBC, Lloyds & Bank Of Scotland in UK - May impact your ability to pay with a card

https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/20/google-...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c58jd2kjp93xt