Facebook Down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Down?

#81

Post by rvz » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:45 PM UTC

Oh dear. Mark Zuckerbergs website, photo gallery and his SMS messenger are down.

Time to use something that doesn't scan your photo book, address book, and ultimately; everything about YOU.

Re: Facebook Down?

#82

Post by chris_wot » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:45 PM UTC

Yup, getting oauth errors.

Re: Facebook Down?

#83

Post by kickling » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

css wrote: post #65

kickling wrote: post #4

Love the status page right now. https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ PS. Instagram app/site, whatsapp.com, messenger.com, oculus.com also down, anything else? UPDATE: Everything back up! (Even the status page)

It loads fine for me and shows no downtime or incidents. It even says "Facebook Platform is Healthy"

Yup, everything just came back online.

Re: Facebook Down?

#84

Post by aerosmile » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

Likely not related, but you can imagine that they are quite busy these days with two unplanned projects:

1. Retooling the underpinnings of their ad analytics to survive iOS14. Big advertisers are about to lose a lot of their insights into attribution, partially directly related to the new limitations of iOS14, and partially due to assumptions that Facebook had made about tracking and which are no longer accurate and require a big rewrite.

2. Building an internal Shopify to allow customers to click on ads and complete transactions without ever leaving their app. This already exists but is practically unusable and nowhere close to the polish of Shopify.

Re: Facebook Down?

#85

Post by threatripper » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

fastball wrote: post #24

threatripper wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do they share infrastructure?

Yeah, that's what I was wondering. Strange that there is a SPOF for Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp.

I had the impression that they are still run like mostly independent companies who only share some data on the backend.

Re: Facebook Down?

#86

Post by hnarn » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

fishnchips wrote: post #57

Quickly, let your FB engineering friends know. If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well and they're none the wiser.

> If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well

That is not how monitoring should work. But this is also not how status pages should work.

Re: Facebook Down?

#87

Post by menocchio2021 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

Fun fact! Before FB got down, I've seen a disscusion on a group where ppl complaining about the social networks - same usual bs, but still keep using them!

I am curious how they will feel now!

Re: Facebook Down?

#88

Post by cjohnson318 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

tamaharbor wrote: post #37

Perhaps society can rebuild if this continues.

Nature is healing.

Re: Facebook Down?

#89

Post by chris_wot » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

css wrote: post #65

kickling wrote: post #4

Love the status page right now. https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ PS. Instagram app/site, whatsapp.com, messenger.com, oculus.com also down, anything else? UPDATE: Everything back up! (Even the status page)

It loads fine for me and shows no downtime or incidents. It even says "Facebook Platform is Healthy"

Try posting

Re: Facebook Down?

#90

Post by newbie578 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

I don't understand how can you allow this to happen? I get one platform being down, but for all of your platforms to be down is not a good sign.

I only realized now that I only used Facebook platforms to communicate with my friends, and guess what I cannot reach them by Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp.

So I am downloading Signal... I mean come on, you are literally loosing users because of this...