Yes, I noticed it too[0]. This is going to send a truckload of traffic onto Twitter/X and Telegram. -- [0]: https://twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/1765036872290681089
Can't see the post, and can't login on twitter either, so probably :D
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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.
These 1 percent of edge cases take so much effort to test and handle though.
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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?
Actually I can see this morphing into a Russia interference conspiracy. If the main social media used by liberals goes down, while the one used by Trump (forgot what it's called) stays up, surely that is an advantage for him?
There are probably more MAGA's on Facebook platforms than TFG's Truth Social. Either way it's going to start a few conspiracy theories.
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#175And 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 thought I got hacked and tried to retrieve my password. Got a weird email with the same code every time from facebookmail.com
My first thought was that I'd been hacked as well...
I have gotten 4-6 "here's your facebook reset" type emails over the last month. All unrequested. I've always assumed they're casual attacks (mostly interested in seeing if my password can be stuffed into another, more valuable account)
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#176What are the chances this is GPT-5 that has escaped and gone rogue? Jest aside, i wonder when/if stuff like that will actually happen.
Negligible. It would have gone after Twitter first.
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#177Earlier 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 :(
There are so many microservices everywhere with different teams responsible, that if just one team doesn't forward errors properly it is messed up.
Integration tests are a thing.
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#178I'm from Sri Lanka. It's not working here; I was suddenly logged out from all devices.
Sri Lankans cannot live without FB and its the afternoon here.
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#179And 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".
That was my cue to check hacker news
Me too, after the first couple of "is it down" websites I tried failed to load.
HN never fails us when a big website is down.
I was also almost ready to reset my password.