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Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by j-g-faustus »

aresant wrote: post #4

It's hard to overstate the damage this is causing for merchants that prominently display FB like on their pages - lots of big ugly blank spaces / errors out there. Realize this is temporary but shows why if you install any external vendor tool as a part of your site make contingency plans that switch on errors.

Do better systems exist? A few hours downtime in several years is still better than most brick-and-mortar stores, I think.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#102

Post by alphabeat »

someone_here wrote: post #17
smackfu wrote: post #13

I like how their API response time chart intentionally doesn't have a Y scale. But clearly it is busted: http://www.facebook.com/developers/chart.php?type=at_total_t...

Oh dear, DNS error on that link.

As somebody pointed out, the www record was removed probably to stop the barrage of requests coming in.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#104

Post by bmunro »

moultano wrote: post #96
spolsky wrote: post #69

cauliflower farms everywhere are withering for lack of water.

The first 10 times I read this comment, I thought it was a pun on facebook's color scheme, until I realized that it's cornflower blue, not cauliflower blue.

It's cornflour, not flower

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#105

Post by wazoox »

patrickmclaren wrote: post #98
danielnicollet wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't downvote me. I am not a native speaker. But I still don't get it. Someone care to explain ;-)

FarmVille.

As a non facebook user, I didn't get it either... :)

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#106

Post by whopa »

bmunro wrote: post #104
moultano wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first 10 times I read this comment, I thought it was a pun on facebook's color scheme, until I realized that it's cornflower blue, not cauliflower blue.

It's cornflour, not flower

Huh? It is cornflower:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_cyanus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower_blue

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#107

Post by bl4k »

klochner wrote: post #57
bl4k wrote: post #31

Well somebody has screwed it up on their end. Only the www record is not resolving, a lot of the others are, for eg: http://developers.facebook.com/ $ nslookup facebook.com ns1.facebook.com Server: ns1.facebook.com Address: 204.74.66.132#53 Name: facebook.com Address: 69.63.189.11 Name: facebook.com Address: 69.63.181.12 Name: facebook.com Address: 69.63.189.16 $ nslookup www.facebook.com ns1.facebook.com Server: ns1…

I imagine that would be a relatively easy fix, more likely they took the record down to debug internally without getting flooded with requests.

It looks like you were right - they dropped that record to stop the requests coming in

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

#108

Post by athom »

wazoox wrote: post #105
patrickmclaren wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FarmVille.

As a non facebook user, I didn't get it either... :)

I use Facebook (sometimes), played FarmVille and Farm Town up until this January, and I STILL didn't get it right off. Guess pulling out of those games was a good idea after all. :)

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by al_james »

whopa wrote: post #106
bmunro wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's cornflour, not flower

Huh? It is cornflower: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centaurea_cyanus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornflower_blue

Yes, because cornflour blue would be, well, white.

Re: Facebook Down, Like Buttons Vanish, Internet Implodes

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Post by sssparkkk »

bl4k wrote: post #44
rryyan wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious about this and Googling failed me, do you have a link?

I took a screenshot on my other machine - I will upload it when I am on there next There were hundreds of items on the list (Edit: here is this link for now: http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-tw... I am sure that I saved the entire page of blacklisted words)

That screenshot shows which of the current (more or less I guess) topics need to be blacklisted. Not which words are always blacklisted.
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