Oh, that's why I was logged out then.
Meta outage
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Re: Meta outage
#542Earlier quoted context omitted.
Social Media is very successful in Get Out the Vote campaigns for younger people - who typically vote for one party disproportionately.
This would be a point for sure, except this is a primary and the only people who can vote in it are registered party members. Young people actually registered already care enough to know it's the primary today. This one is already decided though. Biden on the Democrat side, Trump on the Republican. If anything it might hurt the Trump side a bit, as people may not realize that the Supreme Court only yesterday ruled st…
There’s all the down-ballot elections, and states like Texas have completely open primaries.
And states like Texas often have nearly one-party rule, so the primary pretty much is the election.
Because of the party that currently owns the non-urban parts of Texas, I usually vote in that primary, despite not voting for its candidates in the general elections.
Re: Meta outage
#543Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There are quite some harsh comments here below. You can't plan for every possible failure point, who knows what part of a system/infra out of everything that they have went down and triggered this behaviour. Some things you just can't catch/predict. Especially in huge systems like theirs. I would expect people here to understand things like these and not just call people names for something like this, we all know thi…
This is a company with one of the largest digital infrastructures in the world. An outage is understandable, inability to tell they're having an outage and inform users appropriately is not. Stop making excuses for people who are literally awash in resources.
Re: Meta outage
#544Earlier quoted context omitted.
iirc these all use GCP which would make sense for them all to be disrupted at the same time. I wouldn't have thought Meta was GCP reliant though?
all of them are using oauth, likely auth provider issue?
And I assumed it would be DNS again.
Would referral traffic cause issues like this?
Re: Meta outage
#545Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
There are quite some harsh comments here below. You can't plan for every possible failure point, who knows what part of a system/infra out of everything that they have went down and triggered this behaviour. Some things you just can't catch/predict. Especially in huge systems like theirs. I would expect people here to understand things like these and not just call people names for something like this, we all know thi…
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Re: Meta outage
#546Looking 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
Cloudflare or AWS ?
Re: Meta outage
#547Seeing such a large web property go down like this is fascinating.
It's like a power plant grid failure, except for attention instead of energy.
When meta is down, a hoard of internet users desperately seek somewhere else to place their attention... But the system is designed with the expectation that meta will take all that traffic... And boom! everything starts falling over. Wild.
Re: Meta outage
#548Earlier quoted context omitted.
Naively, divide ad revenue by time to get a dollars-per-time. But thats naive because ad serving isn’t totally sold out so they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window. If the outage is short, then the impact is small. But some markets are totally sold out and there’s no making up for lost impressions.
> they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window no need to do that, for google search, people will come back later to make the search
Yes, but, they’ll need to serve X ads in a smaller amount of time
Re: Meta outage
#549Re: Meta outage
#550It's DNS