This is so funny because the status page itself actually shows 500 Internal Server Error to me in the API calls. So the status page clearly isn't isolated from the FB network itself. I highly suspect it is either a BGP convergence issue, or their OIDC service hits the dirt.
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#322Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
> BY JON GAMBRELL
Updated 8:25 PM PST, March 4, 2024
Timelines don't match nicely
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#323Which one this time - BGP or DNS? Either way, global GDP should be up :)
Given the range. Doesn't look like DNS
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#324Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
maybe a long tail consequence of further shifting traffic?
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#325I love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.
I have yet to see one plausible reason for why this would affect primary voting in any way. Voting is done at the local level on local hardware; we don't vote on Facebook.
Messenger is also down. For some people this is an important means of communication (many young people I know in the US). People may either be in a panic or otherwise cannot coordinate sufficiently the plans they may have had to get to the polls.
That being said this year's primaries have got to be historically uncontested that it could not matter less.
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#326Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
This shouldn't affect europe. It just stopped working
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#327What could affect so many different services? Some DNS server? Clould provider like AWS?
Underwater cables seemingly got attacked; the Red Sea situation is likely related: https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou...
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#328Down here in South Africa too.. it's weird that it's not affecting everyone, yet it's worldwide.. It's almost as if it's taking down a percentage or section of addresses/uid's on their database... I wouldn't be surprised to hear that everyone affected, joined the app at a similar date, or the sequential uid's. To me this sounds like more than a bug.. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hack.
I agree with this 100%! I do not believe this is just a little bug. This is more. There’s been a lot of things happening that people are trying to ignore. But this just adds to it..
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#329I was considering buying the Quest 3 this morning, this outage is timely. The fact that I can't use my perfectly working headset to play an offline game because facebook is down, makes me wonder if I should go for a different provider. Any recommendations? Excluding apple vision pro since it is too expensive.
Unless it's a recent change, it works perfectly fine offline (wifi turned off).
As for alternatives, there is Pico, but Quest 3 may be superior in games selection. Or go wired which is of course less portable
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#330I've never seen an outage this bad and I've been on Facebook since the oughts.
The 2021 outage was worse, it completely killed the network access to FB data centers for hours, and even led to issues with FB employees accessing offices (since the badge readers were also offline). It was so bad it got it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage