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Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by css » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:56 PM UTC

kickling wrote: post #83

css wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yup, everything just came back online.

Now I am unable to connect at all:

    ~# wget https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/
    Connecting to developers.facebook.com (157.240.206.16:443)
    wget: can't connect to remote host (157.240.206.16): Operation timed out

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by btown » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

gh-throw wrote: post #66

cure wrote: post #35

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Seriously, they host the status page on their own infrastructure? That's ... not smart.

Every company's actual status page (and news feed) is on Twitter, no matter what else they say. I don't know where Twitter hosts their real status page. Probably Facebook. Notably, Facebook hasn't updated theirs, though.

> every company's actual status page is on Twitter

Clearly you have not experienced the absolute joy of a mission-critical locked-in-vendor B2B SaaS with no status page, no active Twitter presence, and the effective status page being a chat widget that routes to a person overseas who says "oh yeah this is a known outage on our main product please stay tuned" but there's no attempt to proactively make it visible to clients that they know there is an outage.

EDIT: fun fact, said vendor lets us use a subdomain we own, so we just route them through a Cloudflare Worker that injects Sentry into their HTML, so that we can monitor errors ourselves and raise tickets with them pretending that we know less than we actually know, because somehow we have a better observability culture than a SaaS vendor that's been around for 20 years. Don't underestimate the difference between vendor.mybrand.com and mybrand.vendor.com on a feature matrix, it may save your sanity.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by type0 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

I wish wholeheartedly that it stays down for a long-long time, long enough to loose it's relevance.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by danielam » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374499/facebook-instagra...

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by ASalazarMX » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 9:58 PM UTC

lovedswain wrote: post #102

grensley wrote: post #27

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

The global outage drinking game: bad DNS config push - 1 shot routing loop - 2 shots third party advertising your routes - 3 shots power outage at data centre it turns out everything depends on despite decades and millions in engineering to avoid precisely that - 4 shots Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots And it was a full moon - 6 shots Single service failure, but service has not been restarted in 5 years, and no lo…

> Wolves ate through fiber - 5 shots

I hope it's wolves, that would create a new category in https://cybersquirrel1.com/

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by liquidify » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:00 PM UTC

reaperducer wrote: post #105

css wrote: post #65

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

Not here. Status page still does not load at all.

same, and can't visit the site at all

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by abhishekbasu » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:00 PM UTC

vesinisa wrote: post #103

chaos_emergent wrote: post #46

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Probably an intern doing something dumb.

If an intern can bring down the whole presence of your company online it's not the intern who is dumb.

some startups would like to disagree

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by dekerta » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:00 PM UTC

atourgates wrote: post #23

Of course the first time in months I've used any of Facebook API services, and they go down mid-implementation.

Maybe you broke Facebook

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by pope_meat » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:00 PM UTC

sgt wrote: post #6

I hope they get FB back up and running within the end of the year, otherwise I may actually start missing it.

I walked away from fb a year and half ago, and I don't miss any of it.

Hope it stays down, it would be an overall net gain for humanity.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by peterburkimsher » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:00 PM UTC

mbasic.facebook.com was also down in New Zealand. Thought it was a company firewall issue at first, but checked https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and confirmed that it's happening to others.