Meta outage • Hacker News Board

Re: Meta outage

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Post by dwighttk » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:06 PM UTC

peterleiser wrote: post #364

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

S**'s gettin' real: https://downdetector.com/status/pokemon-go/

Scrolling down their list, why is DoorDash the only one that didn’t have a spike this morning?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by sandspar » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:08 PM UTC

MyFirstSass wrote: post #10

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:

Same, thought all of my friends were getting spammed and i'll look like a "boomer" who got phished. Then i remembered i have a very long and secure password, then immediately panicked about someone having access to my Gmail. The sense of security is more brittle than i thought.

On a psychological note, I think the threat detection part of our brain doesn't always notify our conscious thought that it's actively monitoring for threats. I've often noticed that when I'm carefully handling a hot frying pan then my ringing phone is more likely to startle me than usual.

Re: Meta outage

#583

Post by Capricorn2481 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

slig wrote: post #320

perfectritone wrote: post #294

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really should be a static page.

Built on React, though.

React can be used fine for static pages. That's orthogonal.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by op00to » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

N19PEDL2 wrote: post #472

btbuildem wrote: post #449

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

i knew my packets took a wrong turn at Albuquerque

Re: Meta outage

#585

Post by yreg » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:10 PM UTC

newswasboring wrote: post #577

ndiddy wrote: post #535

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see the "sorry, we are receiving too many requests, try again in a few minutes" error several times a day on here. I don't think that HN is reliably able to handle the amount of users it currently has.

I have been using HN daily since I was a teenager. I've seen that message maybe 10 times outside of serious issues in last 15 years. It's strange to me that it happens so frequently for you.

That's difficult to believe to be honest. I get it several times a week.

Re: Meta outage

#586

Post by Solvency » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

packetslave wrote: post #567

Solvency wrote: post #478

[flagged]

"blah blah blah I don't like the company so all their engineers must be really stupid..."

"The metaverse is the future of this company! We've hired the very best brains in the world to make these 1998 era PS1 polygon avatars!"

whole company goes offline

Re: Meta outage

#587

Post by hengistbury » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:11 PM UTC

tinycoder25 wrote: post #539

Status page show some services are recovering. I wonder why ad services is the first service to be mentioned as recovering instead of login.

No reason to allow people on the platform if you can't monetise them, especially after monetisation has been paused for a few hours

Re: Meta outage

#588

Post by tjpnz » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

deadbabe wrote: post #333

newsclues wrote: post #312

Nothing of value was lost.

Entire businesses and livelihoods would crumble without Meta’s platforms.

If your business only exists at the sole discretion of Meta then it's not a viable business, at least not in the longterm.

Re: Meta outage

#589

Post by KineticLensman » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

jon-wood wrote: post #374

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

Or people are using Facebook Auth for them. I don't really trust Down Detector, which despite the claims is really People Winging on Twitter Detector.

Seems likely. TikTok and YouTube are currently working for me, while Meta platforms aren't.

Re: Meta outage

#590

Post by dylan604 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:12 PM UTC

partiallypro wrote: post #579

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

Down Detector is so unreliable. People that can't call an AT&T phone via Verizon will think (and report) that Verizon is down, when it's really AT&T. People can try logging in using Facebook's on click login and not be able to get in, so they think Tiktok is down. It's not all that useful. I hate when journalists cite it.

It's only slightly better than "my mom claims". My mom would ask if I had the internet at my house. Yup. all of it. in a rack in my bedroom closet. She'd also report the "internet is down" when a single website was having issues. To me, that is down detector carrying on the legacy of moms everywhere.