Rush for myDarwin final round crashes online system for almost an hour

MYDARWIN shoppers rushed to use the sixth round on the first day of the pool today, crashing the online system for almost an hour.

Nguyet Vu outside Nail Lovers, one of the businesses that has benefited from the myDarwin local voucher scheme. Picture: Glenn Campbell

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MYDARWIN shoppers rushed to use the sixth round on the first day of the pool today, crashing the online system for almost an hour.

The system crashed just after 10am due to high volumes of users, before it was promptly put back online about 10.50am.

More than $250 had been spent before 7am, with more than $31,000 spent out of the fund by the end of the day.

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The sixth round will run until the $200,000 funding pool runs out.

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