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Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by OccamsMirror »

nabla9 wrote: post #59

Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?

I reached out to an old acquaintance that could be a great help to my company. I reached out over Facebook. Now that contact can not respond and may have not even seen my message. I have no other way of contacting this person. This affects my business.

I hate Facebook, but to deny its value is pretty naive.

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Post by rcruzeiro »

hrrsn wrote: post #132
alanbernstein wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you think of Messenger as separate from Facebook?

I consider my relationship with Messenger separate from FB. Most of my conversations happen there. I've deleted FB from my phone, but I don't think I could ever go without Messenger.

I used to be like that. One day I just sent the same message to all people I still contacted on messenger saying that I was getting rid of it in one week and listing 3 alternate services people could use to contact me. Didn't lose a single contact and never looked back.

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Post by valentinemsmith »

buboard wrote: post #156
knicholes wrote: post #155

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you're inferring that Facebook is "free," I'd strongly disagree. Data is the currency of today, and they're swimming in it.

fb platform is free

TAANSTAFL

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_ain%27t_no_such_thing_as...

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Post by edoceo »

SilverSurfer972 wrote: post #166
komali2 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they do this to get around and 99.9% uptime agreements?

That's the trust issue with current agreements we are solving. If an API is down the bound agreement is enforced instantly with our platform, no lies, no call, no pain. We are actually onboarding companies to try it out! https://stacktical.com

Even with your platform there will be calls and pain, maybe even lies during an outage. BC-Recordkeeping or not

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Post by macintux »

mtw wrote: post #190
40acres wrote: post #172

I'm interviewing for a Production Engineer role at Facebook on Monday, thanks for providing relevant "do you have any questions for us" content.

Good question is why oh why switch WhatsApp to Facebook tech when it was running perfectly ok on its own. Never crashed.

Speaking as an Erlang developer I approve of this question.

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Post by Arbalest »

FabHK wrote: post #208

Let's see whether we have a spike in the birth rate in 9 months. (Oh, turns out the Great Blackout Baby Boom was a myth: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/from-here-to-maternity/ )

What if there is a fall in birthrate because people can't organise risky hookups without their preferred communication platform?

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Post by rhizome »

unethical_ban wrote: post #151
linsomniac wrote: post #53

Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…

> "We are trying to gather information, we are making a bunch of client phone calls, we will know after we make those calls." I think that is a yes, and he getting ahead by saying "Yes and we have no idea why or ETA so let us do our job". Granted, they should have a status page.

I wouldn't be surprised if they think a status page would open up liability for not putting it up soon enough, or for too long, or for some text that turned out to be wrong or unnecessary.

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

bradhe wrote: post #112
taurath wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

“Outage, what outage?” Is a sort of laughable response but all too common with tons of providers.

I'm looking at you, AWS...

Remember when S3 failed and the S3 green arrow was being cached on S3. I remember... unfortunately.
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