Xbox Live went down again, the second time this week

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Xbox Live went down again, according to the Xbox team and lots of reports on social media. This is the second time in just a few days. The outage lasted approximately two hours, and the service appears to be functioning correctly now
The outage mainly affected sign-ins, account creations, and searches, according to a tweet from the Xbox team, but those sign-ins are required to play lots of popular online games.
We’re aware that some users are unable to sign in currently & our teams are looking into it now. We’ll update when we have more info to share. Thanks for all the reports!
— Xbox Support (@XboxSupport) August 30, 2019
This kind of outage doesn’t just affect games like Destiny 2 or Fortnite, which require people to sign in to…