IRCTC, booking and Tatkal

People have taken to social media to express their frustrations over IRCTC being down again for the second time in one month.
The IRCTC website experienced a significant outage this morning, affecting Tatkal ticket bookings during peak hours. Downdetector noted a surge in user reports, with around 700 complaints.
The outage caused inconvenience to thousands of users who tried to book Tatkal tickets during the holiday season.