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Re: Meta outage

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Post by EasyMark » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:35 PM UTC

rimunroe wrote: post #551

jon-wood wrote: post #374

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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.

> I don't really trust Down Detector, which despite the claims is really People Winging on Twitter Detector. I'm confused. Isn't listening for spikes in complaints about outages a great way to detect them? I know for a fact some service companies monitor social media channels for this purpose (among others). I'd be surprised if that wasn't more or less standard practice. I've checked Down Detector for ISP outages in…

I think it's a good data point, but it's not a "tell all" indicator. So I agree with you.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by chimeracoder » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:40 PM UTC

Vicinity9635 wrote: post #817

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

X (Twitter) wasn't affected: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1765048551023734801 Downdetector is user reports, not automated monitoring. It's... semi-trustworthy.

In general, linking to an Elon Musk tweet is hardly proof that a Twitter service degradation didn't happen.

Even more so when the tweet in question isn't even a direct claim about Twitter, but just a meme making fun of a competitor.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by KMnO4 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 9:45 PM UTC

callalex wrote: post #699

whatwhaaaaat wrote: post #657

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I can guarantee you with 100% confidence from experience that the call centers for AT&T, T-Mobile, Comcast, etc. are all blowing up right now because of users who assume that if the Instagram app isn’t loading it means the “wifi” is broken. Also keep in mind “wifi” doesn’t mean 802.11, it means “anything related to the internet” up to and including 4g/5g and Ethernet.

Heh, as soon as I saw Instagram failing to load, I immediately assumed it was Roger’s fault. They just suck when it comes to reliability and Instagram has a much better track record.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by Tarball10 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

neogodless wrote: post #220

https://metastatus.com/ seems to be suffering a hug of death now...

I see Corporate Memphis has even infected status pages now.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

jgehrcke wrote: post #305

Might be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp

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Re: Meta outage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:00 PM UTC

didip wrote: post #511

Laid off too many people? Critical services no longer have owners?

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Re: Meta outage

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Post by seb1204 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

So why is this site metastatus.com and not status.meta.com as mentioned in an earlier article here the east amount of domain names these big corps have is not helping with making sure this is not a scam. So why metastatus.com and not metastatuscheck.com? Sure that the buffs at Mets could come up with an independent machine that can show the status even if everything else is down.

Re: Meta outage

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Post by sterlind » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

rimunroe wrote: post #648

Arainach wrote: post #598

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You must have an exceptional neighborhood. Everywhere I lived, here's a handy map of "actual cause" :: "what the neighbors said it was" Car exhaust :: gunshot Appliance delivery truck liftgate :: gunshot Transformer explosion :: gunshot Garbage truck :: gunshot 787 at 25000ft :: complete ruining of peace and quiet Any police activity :: probably someone robbed a bank For the record, my city has (statistically indisti…

I can imagine it being different in a city. I'm in a fairly quiet suburban area. One time I heard a loud boom. A few hours later I saw a neighbor outside and asked if he'd heard it and if he knew what it was. He told me a house a few neighborhoods over had exploded. I was a bit skeptical of it but he turned out to be right.

exploded? the house... exploded? like, a gas leak or something?

Re: Meta outage

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Post by pvg » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:02 PM UTC

Edit: I'm leaving the comment as penance but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 points out, this is an old message about an old update, not the current one.

A short update from meta with some initial high level technical details:

https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...

Re: Meta outage

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 10:03 PM UTC

seb1204 wrote: post #827

So why is this site metastatus.com and not status.meta.com as mentioned in an earlier article here the east amount of domain names these big corps have is not helping with making sure this is not a scam. So why metastatus.com and not metastatuscheck.com? Sure that the buffs at Mets could come up with an independent machine that can show the status even if everything else is down.

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