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Re: Meta outage

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Post by getlawgdon »

ykonstant wrote: post #78

And rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".

I have exactly this issue. Been frantically jumping around this morning dealing with perceived security issues and have no idea where my many FB resets led to.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by davisr »

There isn't a single part of my life that is affected by this. Good riddance; Facebook is a psychological cancer.

Re: Meta outage

#165

Post by lxgr »

bbarn wrote: post #128
MandieD wrote: post #94

Special bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.

I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy. What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?

Facebook and other social media platforms have played somewhat of a role in the 2016 election, for example. Meta has been under a lot of pressure for that, compare e.g. this recent Instagram change: https://about.instagram.com/blog/announcements/continuing-ou...

Re: Meta outage

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Post by ak_111 »

apetresc wrote: post #137
MandieD wrote: post #94

Special bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.

Neither party's primary is in the slightest way contested, so what do you think the "bonus" is here?

If we get huge surge of "Uncommitted" votes to Biden as we did in Michigan, you can argue this can cause significant pressure on him and might even lead to his ousting...

Re: Meta outage

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Post by kortex »

bbarn wrote: post #128
MandieD wrote: post #94

Special bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.

I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy. What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?

Messenger is often used to coordinate logistics among friends. I would not be surprised if a Meta disruption lead to at least momentary confusion if someone was planning on carpooling. Not to mention it messes with "get out the vote" posting.

I'm not very conspiracy-minded but this does smell a little weird.

At the very least, "there's a big event in the country of one of our biggest userbases, maybe hold off on risky deploys until tomorrow"

Re: Meta outage

#168

Post by gramstrong »

_yb2s wrote: post #138
geerlingguy wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I lament the fact error messages are rarely, if ever, displayed anymore. Just a generic message in its place, usually not even indicating whether it's a 'you' problem or a 'them' problem :(

It amazes me how most smartphone apps- which operate in a wireless environment of likely flaky connections, don't seem to be tested or designed at all to handle loss of connections. They tend to just become non-responsive or do erroneous things like play the first second of an audio file and then auto-pause, without reporting any errors.

Sooo like the Spotify app for the past 10 years.

Re: Meta outage

#169

Post by SoullessSilent »

ykonstant wrote: post #78

And rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".

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