The application could not stand up due to the extremely large number of requests, explained the head of the Ministry of Digital Development.

On Saturday, February 3, the National selection for Eurovision 2024 took place in Ukraine. They voted for their favorite artist through “Diya”, however, due to the huge number of requests, the application crashed, so the announcement of the results had to be postponed.

Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Digital Transformation of Ukraine Mikhail Fedorov explained that during the voting in the national selection for Eurovision 2024, a record number of users was recorded in the entire history of the project and promised that the operation of the application would resume within a few hours. However, the Ukrainians could no longer be stopped – the network was filled with memes and jokes.

So, someone reminded us of last year’s power outage schedules. Fortunately, they were not needed this year.

Users also suggested a different “approach” to voting for a representative from Ukraine:

Ukrainians have made a lot of jokes with popular memes on the Internet.

In addition, the Ukrainians decided to “treat” “Diya” on their own:

Glitch in “Dii”: what is known

During the national selection for Eurovision, fans of the song contest began voting for their favorite artist in the “Diya” application. However, there were too many requests, which led to a massive outage.

According to the head of the Ministry of Digital Development, Mikhail Fedorov, if last year during the voting in “Diya” there were 800 requests per second, then this year they were recorded at 15,000.

“Compared to last year, we increased capacity 5 times (and received 20 times more requests). And therefore a huge queue arose. I apologize for this situation. We will do a detailed analysis, analysis and implement organizational changes in order to be ready for similar waves of traffic,” he explained.

After some time, “Diya” began to “come to life,” but other nuances appeared. For many users, instead of their name in the documents, the standard “Diya Nadezhda Vladimirovna” appeared, which is used in the samples. In addition, many found that they became the “owner” of a car or a pension certificate. Subsequently, the situation returned to normal, Ukrainians were again able to cast their votes.