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This shouldn't affect europe. It just stopped working
Somebody might have fat-fingered a BGP configuration while trying to improve traffic routing that was impacted by the cut cables.
I 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.
Grassroots organizers use FB and messenger and Insta for “get out the vote” communications. People use these services to goad their friends to go and vote. People use FB as a search engine to identify their polling place.
Tip for Meta engineers: when your service is failing, don't just log people out and prevent logins. Display a cute image that shows that the service is drastically failing (like a whale or something), and then people will know to stop trying to repeatedly log in. The public might even come up with a catchy name for the whale.
Beyond unbelievable that going on an hour later, they're still showing "incorrect password" errors. How many hundreds of millions of people have wasted time frantically trying (in vain) to reset their passwords and pointlessly freaking out that their account might be compromised? What a bunch of careless, incompetent excuses for engineers.
I 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.
Might 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
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I called out some comment for being racist a little earlier (yeah I know, just report and move on...) and figured they'd managed to pwn my account somehow. Good to know it's not just me.
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Discord is having issues too! https://discordstatus.com/
I think the downtime associated with other services could just be people choosing alternative sites for their social media time. Facebook + Insta makes up a huge share of the social media market, and when they go offline, it'd be natural for their competitors to receive large sudden upticks in trafic they're not immediately prepared for on a Tuesday morning.
Tip for Meta engineers: when your service is failing, don't just log people out and prevent logins. Display a cute image that shows that the service is drastically failing (like a whale or something), and then people will know to stop trying to repeatedly log in. The public might even come up with a catchy name for the whale.
Then I saw the news that it was an outage.