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Re: Meta outage

#32

Post by acquacow »

neogodless wrote: post #27

https://metastatus.com/ They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!)

That hasn't even been updated since Mar 1... Edit, oh, now it has today's date, but still doesn't reflect reality.

Re: Meta outage

#33

Post by saturn5k »

Session timed out. I'm in Macedonia. In the quick login menu there was another person with name and profile photo beside my name and profile photo. It seems the girl was from my country, don't know her. I thought I was hacked. This is messed up.

IG is not working as well. Feeds, profiles, messages are all blank.

Re: Meta outage

#36

Post by mdrzn »

FB logs you out and claims "Wrong password" if you try to login. IG just doesn't load new posts or comments, but doesn't log me out.

Re: Meta outage

#37

Post by neogodless »

acquacow wrote: post #32
neogodless wrote: post #27

https://metastatus.com/ They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!)

That hasn't even been updated since Mar 1... Edit, oh, now it has today's date, but still doesn't reflect reality.

For me, the home page and Messenger Platform have date/time stamps like

> Updated Mar 5 2024 10:33 AM EST

and

> Updated Mar 5 2024 10:37 AM EST

Re: Meta outage

#38

Post by lebean »

rvz wrote: post #20

Oh dear. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads are all down. and its time to contact the CEO of Meta to bring them all back up. At least Twitter / X is still up, so time to complain about it there.

I'm on it! I WhatsApped Zuckerberg directly. He's aware of the situation.

Re: Meta outage

#39

Post by mfrommil »

quartz wrote: post #5

Seems like it. Pretty messy too because it sometimes pushes you to reset your password which then doesn't work so there are going to be a LOT of reset email codes floating out there.

Agreed. Probably could be a much better UX for handling a mass outage like this. Graceful, clear error messaging that FB login is down would be better than the current UI.

Triggering millions of people to unnecessarily reset their password yet still be unable to login is not a great UX. This seems like one of those cases that's high impact when it does happen, never likely to occur on any given day, but likely to happen at some point; probably just wasn't much focus put on handling a case like this.

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