REPORT: Tab Founder Says Service Is Returning in Small Waves After Upgrade Outage
Tab founder Brennan Erbz says a small first rollout has been completed and the team is making adjustments as service returns gradually. Paid users are being prioritized, and no full-restoration time has been announced in the updates reviewed.
Tab is being brought back in small groups after an outage during a major systems upgrade, according to updates from founder Brennan Erbz.
In a post late Saturday, Erbz said the first very small rollout had been completed and that the team was making adjustments before continuing. In a reply, he said the release was not yet available to everyone.
An earlier update said paid users would be prioritized, followed by other users. Erbz said the gradual rollout was intended to protect reliability, meaning some customers could regain access before others.
The company had previously said Tab was offline while it made what it described as its biggest upgrade to the systems behind the service. That earlier statement, shown in the featured image, said the changes included personalized plans and improvements aimed at speed and reliability.
Tab also said it would reset everyone's usage limits to thank users for waiting.
The updates reviewed do not give a firm deadline for restoring access to every user. The founder's posts describe a staged return, not a completed system-wide restoration. Individual account availability has not been independently tested.
Tab is an assistant that works through messaging apps. Its website lists help with tasks such as restaurant reservations, phone calls, travel, shopping, email and calendars.