moreover, many of the sites that rely on facebook login are down too...
Facebook was down
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#12Doesn't work in Bermuda.
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#13Weird that the link is for ?down=true I thought this is some kind of prank, but http://facebook.com is also showing up as down.
that was probably to get around the duplicate url check.
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#14Weird that the link is for ?down=true I thought this is some kind of prank, but http://facebook.com is also showing up as down.
that was probably to get around the duplicate url check.
It was. There was another post here from 271 days ago that linked directly to facebook.com, also reporting an outage.
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#15Weird that the link is for ?down=true I thought this is some kind of prank, but http://facebook.com is also showing up as down.
HN doesn't allow for duplicate links[^1] so the submitter used the query string to bypass that.
[^1]: There's some new rules about this IIRC but I don't remember exactly what cases allow for duplicate links now.
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#16Reminds me of the scene in Social Network where Zuckerberg is screaming at Saverin on the phone about impending loss of money and subsequent downtime...
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#18Looks like isitdownrightnow.com is being DoS'd as a result
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#19Appears that the status page over at https://developers.facebook.com/status/ isn't loading properly either. I see either a "The connection to developers.facebook.com was interrupted while the page was loading." erorr or a "Service Unavailable" page.
Not ideal for a status page.
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#20productivity across the globe is skyrocketing
Hopefully it spreads to HN!