Why did obsproject.com go down, and why did it take my livestream down?

[crayzcrinkle]

So about 2am, here in the UK, and suddenly my in game froze, it was like uber lag, so I thought the game server i was on had crashed, then I noticed obs itself had frozen up, so when you clikc fast on it, it says program not responding box. I had to actually open task manager to close it.

Then of course tried to re-open the program and set up the stream, but it was giving some authentication error, so i tried regrabbing the twitch streamkey. Regrabbed it from twitch, but obs wouldnt load the connection page, and thats when I realised that obsproject.com was down.

So why did it go down? and why is OBS studio itself held ransom in whether or not you can stream by the uptime of a third party website? Surely the program should have not internet dependancies other than twitch being up and working?

 

[Tomasz Góral]

When OBS frozen and you close via task manager (tab process?) and dont kill (tab details) you have still running frozen process in memory, before run again OBS.

 

[R1CH]

Sounds like your internet went down if your game also lagged. OBS only needs to reach obsproject.com when connecting a Twitch account for the first time, as a required part of the OAuth2 connection. You can stream with a key or an existing connection without requiring a connection to obsproject.com.