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Re: Meta outage

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Post by jonnycomputer »

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.

It would be a better UX, but, depending on the outage, that might be a really hard behavior to guarantee.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by Etheryte »

nuz wrote: post #428

HN also seems unusually slow. Wonder what's going on

Happens every time a major outage happens, everyone pours onto HN to discuss it which gives the one-core server HN runs on a really hard time.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by CobrastanJorji »

basilgohar wrote: post #350
fmsf wrote: post #292

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.

As a principle I think it is a good idea to avoid any technically unneccessary coupling of hardware or software to something else that is not strictly user-servicing, else the priorities are inverted in favor of the vendor's priorities and not your own.

I'm pretty sure the priorities are almost always inverted these days, unnecessary coupling or not.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by rightbyte »

neocritter wrote: post #499
HumblyTossed wrote: post #491

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

It's real. Single core performance improves all the time. People overestimate how much power it takes to handle lots of queries per second on a well-tuned system and well-written software in 2024. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Doesn't he mean single socket by single core?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by bertan14 »

ykonstant wrote: post #78

And rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".

MY SERVICE IS DOWN.... I did exactly as you.. I have no clue now

Re: Meta outage

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Post by MandieD »

DeusExMachina wrote: post #281

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

Additional fun factor: today is Super Tuesday - primary elections in a lot of US states.

This outage will result in absolutely no ridiculous conspiracy theories.

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