The “Action” application, which stopped working after the start of voting for the Ukrainian representative in Eurovision 2024, partially worked.
According to Ukrinform, this situation was reported by users.
In particular, some write that they managed to vote for their favorite. Others complain that Actions keeps showing the “Sorry, an error occurred” message.
Meanwhile, Suspilne reported that “Diya” continues to fix the app.
Due to the failure in Diya the previous day, voting for the winner of the national election was extended until February 4. The replay of the Eurovision national qualifying final concert will start at 15.15, and then the results will be announced live.
According to Ukrinform, Deputy Prime Minister for the Development of Innovation, Education, Science and Technologies – Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov explained that it occurred as a result of the failure of the “Diya” application during the selection for the 2024 Eurovision Song Contest. A sharp increase in requests from users.
According to him, the huge queue arose because 15,000 requests appeared per second instead of 800 requests as in last year’s vote. Although the power of “Action” increased 5 times compared to last year, 20 times more requests were received.
Fedorov apologized for the situation, promising a detailed analysis, analysis and organizational changes to be ready for similar waves of traffic.