Did this have any impact on Occulus users? I know the big Facebook login controversy -- this might have been a good example of why that's a horrible idea.
Judging by the list of people complaining on /r/oculus/, yes, Oculus was down as well.
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#52Logged in for the first time in a while to check if it works - still getting errors but the DNS seems to be resolving now.
I think HN might've caused another outage by hugging it to death like many other websites that landed on the front page.
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#54And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.
True for me as well. What would explain this? Does hn use some tracking from FB? Not trying to throw shade, but this is a surprising correlation.
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#55Damn, nothing good ever lasts huh? Even if it was only a few hours things have significantly improved in my life in the period it went down. Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.
> Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.
They probably likewise felt similar relief that they didn’t receive “Republicans bad” spam from their relatives during this time period.
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#56Can't wait for the post mortem technical post
Facebook, unlike other big tech companies, has no financial incentive to share postmortems. Others are bound by SLA agreements with business customers.
Well, as someone that has an app that had degraded performance due to their SDK failing to talk to Facebook servers. I FOR ONE would really like an explanation.
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#57During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.
It does feel nice, like the oppressor has died, at least for a bit. Also fun to watch the scramble to get it back online, would be nice if it never came back :)
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#58And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.
Probably Facebook trackers. I noticed a lot of apps (including my own) having major slowness on initial load while they were down. My assumption is it was their tracking code timing out.
But HN doesn't have any facebook trackers
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#59During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.
Talk about shooting the messanger.
All the bad people still exist. Its not like fb the platform solely created them or that they will just go away if that particular platform disappeared.
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#60I'm seeing an unusual amount of reddit style small comments on this outage, which I find strange. They're short and in the vein of "Facebook is down: good" or "Facebook is back up: damn nothing good lasts forever" I understand the distain for Facebook as a business, but still this is pretty low effort.
Maybe it's because Facebook has become more than a business and has wormed its way into places where it has no business being?
A ton of small city governments in the US do announcements and such on Facebook these days. One columnist is advocating giving the a seats at the United Nations, and does not get immediately laughed out of the room by the editor [1].
It's really hard to practically escape their reach, all the "How I left Facebook and it was really great" posts notwithstanding. Being digital Henry David Thoreaus is not a scalable strategy.
So I tend to take the low effort comments as a visceral articulation of the relief felt at knowing that the platform and the conspiracy theories and such spreading on it are...gone, albeit only temporarily.
I must confess that I myself felt this kind of relief. I secretly hoped that it would stay down; and that we'd get to rebuild a kinder, more honest, and open social media platform or platforms.
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[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-10-03/give-a...