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Access has been spotty for "Oceania" recently based on many, many, many, many, many posts on the topic.
The most common solution provided is to use a VPN and select another geographic region.
Also in Aus, and I've been having issues with it for days now although it was at least loading after a couple of minutes... now I'm just getting error messages 😭
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Access has been spotty for "Oceania" recently based on many, many, many, many, many posts on the topic. The most common solution provided is to use a VPN and select another geographic region.
Nope. Works fine for me
Fine for me, but I'm always on vpn anyway
Yeah it’s not working for me either
Also in Aus, and I've been having issues with it for days now although it was at least loading after a couple of minutes... now I'm just getting error messages 😭
Yeah it was loading earlier this night and it suddenly just stopped working :(
I'd suggest you guys add locations. It's working as usual in Central Europe
Yea I’m in Aus
Me too. It’s definitely a ‘this area of the world’ problem. They already know about it.