Twas the day before Christmas and all through the house, Steam is back online after a brief and unexpected outage

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It's the day before Christmas and all through the house, nobody is using Steam, not even a mouse—because, you guessed it, Steam is down.

It's unclear what's going on, but at a little before 2 pm ET on a Wednesday, we're guessing this not routine maintenance. Steam appears to be completely gone: The unofficial Steam Status website is reporting websocket errors, and says the entire Steam store, community, and web API are offline. SteamStat page views are also jumping up...