Netflix suffered a major outage in the United States on Wednesday evening, briefly knocking out streaming for thousands of users and triggering spillover glitches in India.

The disruption hit just as the final season of Stranger Things went live, intensifying user frustration. Within minutes of the premiere, social media filled with complaints from viewers whose screens froze or apps crashed mid-play.

Downdetector, which compiles user reports from multiple sources, logged more than 8,000 problem reports in the US at the time of writing this article. Most cited streaming failures, while a sizeable share pointed to server-connection errors.

Even hundreds of users in India reported similar glitches during the same window.

According to Downdetector's breakdown, 51 per cent of complaints were linked to streaming issues and 41 per cent to server problems. Netflix had not commented on the cause of the outage at the time of publication.

Source: India Today