tagesschau.de: Playout was temporarily disrupted

On Thursday morning, the homepage of tagesschau.de and the tagesschau app were temporarily unavailable or displayed outdated content. The reason for this was a technical error that has now been fixed.

Anyone who called up the tagesschau.de homepage or opened the tagesschau app on Thursday morning may have had a déjà vu experience: In most cases, either versions with content from the two previous days were displayed or an error message was displayed. From the morning, the latest news was then played out in the usual way. What happened?

When uploading a video at 6:11 a.m., a chain reaction was triggered due to a misconfiguration on the homepage. As a result, the display system was overloaded, so that outdated content was sometimes displayed and the homepage and the app were sometimes not accessible at all. The bug has been fixed. The playout has been working normally again in all areas since 9.30 a.m. A DDoS attack can be ruled out as the cause.