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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
HN seems to be struggling too, but that could just be everyone here to talk about the outages.
Couldn't use it two nights ago, IDK why.
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:
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The Quest 3 is kind of the obvious mainstream consumer choice for a VR headset. Standalone wireless headset, reasonably powerful chipset, can optionally stream from a PC either wired or wireless, good optics/resolution, decent controllers/tracking, large game library, large suite of features (including hand tracking and color passthrough), all for a reasonable price. Not sure any other headset really competes on all…
can we really call it standalone if you need it to phone home to Meta? and doesn't it require an account one of their services too? they did a fantastic job with hardware. I just wish they didn't couple the software so tightly.
It's the equivalent of finding out that if Microsoft's auth servers go down no one with a Windows PC can use it since they can't authenticate. I'm fairly displeased.
I can confirm that IRC still works! Pfewwwww..... /me takes his coat.
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I can’t answer your question, but when I was at Google I made a mistake that caused ads serving on Google results to become unclickable. For the postmortem they had me calculate (I don’t think a dollar amount but) the number of ad clicks that would have happened during the time it was down. Of course I looked up average cost per click rates. Not sure if I could share even if I remembered, but it really put things in…
I can't believe you typed all that and didn't include a number, what a tease
Seeing 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.
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
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1765048551023734801
Downdetector is user reports, not automated monitoring. It's... semi-trustworthy.
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
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
Services are coming back to live. Interesting to see that all static content was still working during the outage (at least for Instagram). It was still possible to swipe through all reels (I assume the list was cached).
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>Facebook: global daily active users 2023. >Statista https://www.statista.com › statistics › facebook-global-dau Feb 9, 2024 — During the fourth quarter of 2023, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 2.1 billion, a minor increase on the previous quarter. So roughly 28% of the planet.
Facebook accounts != individual humans.