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Robinhood Markets, a trading app that many investors flocked to during the COVID-19 shutdown, is having trouble today. It’s not the first time. Bloomberg reports:

Robinhood Markets has catapulted ahead of its online brokerage rivals with a smartphone app that has attracted an army of young investors. Yet with the company’s rise has come a litany of problems: trading outages, angry customers and regulatory probes.

Over the first half of the year, U.S. consumer protection agencies received more than 400 complaints about Robinhood — roughly four times more than competitors like Charles Schwab Corp. and Fidelity Investments’ brokerage unit. The grievances, obtained via a public records request to the Federal Trade Commission, depict novice investors in over their heads, struggling to understand why they’ve lost money on stock options or had shares liquidated to pay off margin loans.

Among the setbacks highlighted in the documents is a pivotal breakdown in early March when Robinhood stopped working for more than a day, just as markets were swinging wildly on coronavirus fears. Some complainants reported losing thousands of dollars because they couldn’t sell holdings. Others bemoaned the missed opportunity to profit. Most disturbing to the investors was that as the chaos reigned, there was nobody at Robinhood to call for assistance. Many couldn’t even find a listed phone number.

Robinhood is currently trending on Twitter. The stock trading app is down on what, for many of its core customers, is the biggest trading day of the year, with Tesla and Apple stocks splitting. Here’s a selection of some of the responses users are posting on Twitter right now:

They go on and on like that, but perhaps this is the truest of all: