Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are all down for me.
Sounds like paradise.
WhatsApp Down in Some Regions
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#102There's a broader outage somewhere, and I've had degraded service on Google Meet today. Thought it was my speed, but speedtest.net is down too! https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/speedtest.net
I agree, the landing page of this post ( https://xn--allestrungen-9ib.de ) shows that almost all services are affected.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Facebook took $85 billion in revenue last year and has thousands of developers on the payroll. They could absolutely maintain 3 separate services. Bear in mind WhatsApp used to maintain a userbase of 200 million with 50 total employees (not even just developers).
> They can absolutely maintain 3 different services Lol, I'd believe you when they did purchased the service but the countless amount of times it went down since then obviously proves that they cannot even maintain the services when they are folded together on the same infrastructure. It was a long time ago Facebook employed the best of the best. Seems like it's mostly average developers and infrastructure people the…
Hah, to be clear that is what I meant - the idea that Facebook doesn't have the resources is ludicrous, the problem runs deeper.
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#104Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are all down for me.
Sounds like paradise.
This is the paradise I live in every day. Never used it. I have however had to spent the last hour being asked when it will be back by three teenagers and a wife, none of whom appreciate it is nothing whatsoever to do with me. Grr.
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#105The site presents me with a pop-up: > When you proceed to access our site, the companies listed in the Cookie Consent Tool will use cookies and other technologies. This is further explained in our Cookie Notice. None of those are links, and the only button is "Agree and access site". How do I find the Cookie Consent Tool and the Cookie Notice, without having to click "Agree"?
I personally inspected the page to delete the popup from the DOM without clicking "agree".
I found their privacy page here: https://xn--allestrungen-9ib.de/privacy.html.
Interestingly, that has a link to a cookie policy that links to speedtest.net's cookie policy (https://www.speedtest.net/de/about/cookie-policy). I think downdetector is offered by Ookla, so that probably is their cookie policy?
speedtest.net's cookie policy leaves something to be desired. In the english translation it has:
> If you prefer that we do not collect information that will help us determine which advertisements we are best serving you, click this icon.
But I don't see an icon there, or anything clickable. In case it's a mistranslation here's the original german:
> Wenn Sie es vorziehen, dass wir keine Informationen erfassen, mit deren Hilfe wir ermitteln können, welche Werbung wir Ihnen am besten anzeigen, klicken Sie auf dieses Symbol.
Based on that, I have no idea how you can manage your cookie preferences to express a desire not to be tracked.
It seems to be an absolutely flagrant violation of GDPR, and I would encourage a German citizen to bring a case to the German data protection authorities.
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#106Phew, it's not just me. Beyond me why more of these big tech companies can't build more redundancies for their services.
These companies build for redundancy. Not in the sense of "we need 10 servers, let's have 10 more for redundancy" (that gets expensive when you have millions of hosts) but by scaling out across multiple regions/DCs/clusters/etc such that there is enough slack in the system to absorb failure of 1 or 2 resource units (DCs, fiber, whatever). Also, widespread outages like this are seldom the result of insufficient capaci…
IIRC there was a situation where google built a circular dependency in their own cloud services and they had massive issues bootstrapping the systems again after they went haywire
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#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
> OR, get people on Matrix or similar so we can actually stop jumping ship when our centralized dear service stops acting in our best interest. Decentralisation is the right answer. Unfortunately we always cannot convert or move others every-time we say the word 'Matrix' or 'Element/Matrix', which leaves the user confused with the client and the protocol. It is close to the GNU/Linux naming all over again and that di…
Yes, I adjust my language depending the audience and since this is "Hacker News" after all and I mostly don't care about what client people use, as long as it's using Matrix, I find it's best to recommend the protocol itself. Then it's up to us nerds to find the best client for our non-hacker friends and family.
Both of you are right
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The HTTP response says 503, so the text is just generic for any 5xx error.
How do you know the HTTP response was 503? (sorry for the silly questions, I'm not a software engineer)
I looked at the headers returned from the server using developer tools. 503 is "Service Unavailable" and you often see it when a proxy can't reach the backend server.