Snapchat isn’t working correctly for many users, with Stories failing to load or snaps not sending. The outage comes just days after Snapchat released its big Chat 2.0 update that brought stickers and other new features, but possibly more traffic than the service could handle. DownDetector shows an increase in problem reports over the past few hours. Users also appear to be… Read More
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