Meta outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Meta outage

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Post by bluetomcat » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:34 PM UTC

bigwheeler wrote: post #334

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.

> 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.

Probably not so easy to implement in behemoth apps, consisting of 20'000 source files...

Re: Meta outage

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Post by Woshiwuja » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:34 PM UTC

mihaic wrote: post #397

Woshiwuja wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean X right?

I don't think that anyone but Elon ever means X.

forgot the /s

Re: Meta outage

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Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:35 PM UTC

ototot wrote: post #323

1970-01-01 wrote: post #157

Which one this time - BGP or DNS? Either way, global GDP should be up :)

Given the range. Doesn't look like DNS

So... No way it could be DNS?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by shombaboor » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:35 PM UTC

wddkcs wrote: post #290

notsahil wrote: post #198

Discord is having issues too! https://discordstatus.com/

Could this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up.

They've been previewing that change for weeks, and I wondered: why do they need to change it at all? Is it some product manager justifying his need to exist?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by bratwurst3000 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

lol how ?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Facebook_outage

Re: Meta outage

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Post by binaryblitz » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

albatros1313 wrote: post #238

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.

If this was 2016, I'd think there could be a possibility. Given that the candidates for the election are almost 100% a foregone conclusion at this point, what purpose would it serve?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by jeltz » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

johntiger1 wrote: post #283

Ironically, Meta employees are also affected by this

Just like last time they had an outage.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by mkl95 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

bigwheeler wrote: post #334

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.

What do you mean my login flow sucks? Its time complexity is really good!

Re: Meta outage

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Post by marcosdumay » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

jeromegv wrote: post #262

Mastodon is up!

Just checked again to be sure, even lemmy.world is up.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by matsur » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 4:36 PM UTC

boring_twenties wrote: post #392

bigwheeler wrote: post #334

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.

Major outages are periods of intense stress and extremely difficult to operate in. The folks troubleshooting may be many things, but careless and incompetent are unlikely to be among them.