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Re: Meta outage

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Post by eurekin »

mfrommil wrote: post #184
jonnycomputer wrote: post #6

It logged me out and told me that my credentials were incorrect; I thought my credentials had been stolen, so I'm kinda personally glad that it seems to be happening to a lot of other people too. I know that's a bit selfish, but :shrug:

A much better UX would be clear error messaging informing users that the service is down and there is no problem with their individual account. This would prevent people from panicking they've been hacked and/or unnecessarily resetting their password.

There was for a brief moment. I got that once

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Post by basch »

jawns wrote: post #117
basch wrote: post #89

What would take Google and Facebook auth down at the same time? Coordinated 0day patch? Or is the report of Google auth being down actually tied only to meta logins?

That's my best guess. And for them to log out every user in the world makes me incredibly curious about what would have happened if they'd chosen a different course.

I think I’ve experienced 2 or 3 global session resets on fb in my life. Usually followed by some kind of reason they had to protect everyone. This probably isn’t great, hopefully a precaution not an active exploit.

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Post by jeltz »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #130

This means IG is also down. Which means probably a network tier screw up yet again. Idk why they design a monolith network that basically can put out all their infrastructure.

Does not look like a network issue, my guess is that they fucked up something major with their auth server when deploying a change related to the EU Digital Markets Act.

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Post by ak_111 »

laughablecargo wrote: post #193
ak_111 wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

In an election between the two parties I think that would be a very likely narrative but in this case it's the primaries. And (as others have mentioned) neither primary has really had anything resembling a competition at this point so it's more or less irrelevant to the result (most likely).

conspiracy theory get more imaginative.

For example, you can then pose the conspiracy that the fact it was Russian interference conspiracy was a conspiracy to justify more social media policing during the real election.

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Post by ffsm8 »

mewpmewp2 wrote: post #173
_yb2s wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

1 percent is extremely frequent though. Like literally thousands of times per second on prod if it's a b2c application
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