Facebook Down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by grensley » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

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)

I like that it doesn't know that anything went wrong.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by dividedbyzero » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:02 PM UTC

vesinisa wrote: post #103

chaos_emergent wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

While that's perfectly true, I'm sure a smart and determined intern could cause an astonishing amount of damage in many many orgs. Hopefully not at Facebook though.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by roddylindsay » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:02 PM UTC

gh-throw wrote: post #66

cure wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Circa 2008-2009 when I was at FB I wrote a dashboard widget for the ops team that scraped Twitter for mentions of phrases like "Facebook down" in the past 5m. It was in use for a while.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by transreal » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

The website is still down for me, I'm in San Francisco.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by godelmachine » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

dividedbyzero wrote: post #115

godelmachine wrote: post #19

I hope they publish a postmortem.

Do they usually?

They don’t but they should.

Postmortems are exciting reads and they should have a section for postmortems in their engineering blog.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by afandian » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:04 PM UTC

rc202402 wrote: post #42

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 like how you're nostalgic, yet hate fb at the same time.

Nostalgia is rarely uncomplicated

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by amelius » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

type0 wrote: post #123

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

Or long enough to have an experiment which proves the negative externalities of the platform.

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by oneplane » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

InitialLastName wrote: post #100

aerosmile wrote: post #84

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…

3) Frantically planning Zuck's next apology tour after he leaked personal data on half a billion people.

This is an Orville reference isn't it. (or at least, it could be and would be extremely related)

Re: Facebook Down?

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Post by drewzero1 » Thu, Apr 08, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

threatripper wrote: post #51

lavp wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Given the fact that it's also down, I'd say yes

It could be some rouge admin who actually deleted Facebook.

Time for them to hit the gym and call a lawyer!

Re: Facebook Down?

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

Anyone knows what might have caused the outage? Someone working in data centers might have a clue.