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HN seems to be struggling too, but that could just be everyone here to talk about the outages.
That's the standard HN experience, this site runs on a single core I believe.
Edit: I found the following, I wonder if it's still the case.
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HN seems to be struggling too, but that could just be everyone here to talk about the outages.
That's the standard HN experience, this site runs on a single core I believe.
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.
For anything outside like-ing and post-ing, facebooks UI/UX is horrendous. Even Internet search does not help to find out how something trivial is done... The only way is to watch youtube videos.
It isn't perfect for even that IMO.
> Even Internet search does not help to find out how something trivial is done... The only way is to watch youtube videos.
That says more about where the web is heading than about facebook. Video is easier to monetise ATM⁰, and these days people don't put helpful stuff out there just to be helpful as much as they once did¹, so content creators are making them instead of simple web pages.
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[0] Everyone wants to be the next big influenza who doesn't need a day job to get by.
[1] That sort of people are still out there, though they are somewhat drowned out as the signal-to-noise ratio heads inexorably towards “WHAT? WHAT?! I can't hear a single thing above the manscaping adverts!”.
The status page seems down for me as well. I just get a never-ending loading screen.
https://metastatus.com/ seems to be suffering a hug of death now...
Looking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com
“Yeah so it turns out when Facebook and Instagram goes down so does Google”
I do not envy the SREs at either company. I'm pretty sure all those other ones use Facebook or Google as their OAuth provider which is why they are all being reported as down.
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.
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That's the standard HN experience, this site runs on a single core I believe.
Does it really or is this a joke? Edit: I found the following, I wonder if it's still the case. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16076041
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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What's your fave conspiracy theory? Massive cyberattack for Super Tuesday? Powers-that-be mandated takedown? Mossad sleeper agents activated? Covid-brain struck that one engineer attending to that one wire that kept everything going?
Houthis destroying underwater cables in the Red Sea.