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Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by cadr »

27182818284 wrote: post #19

Does this only affect those logged in to Facebook? I quit Facebook for a year so I'm not sure whether it is fixed or whether I was just not bothered by it at all

Yes, that seems to be the case. Also, it has just apparently been fixed.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by arctangent »

burnout1540 wrote: post #2

Not only is it down, but it's redirecting everyone who visits a site with FB Connect on it to this error page. For example: http://www.economist.com

I just got bitten by this. I was visiting a news site and opened ~30 tabs to things I wanted to read. And then those tabs just showed me an error message. Frustrating :(

Edit: Might be worth noting that logging out of FB "fixed" this for me. (But I had to go back and re-open all those tabs.)

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Post by somethingnew »

daniloassis wrote: post #12
burnout1540 wrote: post #2

Not only is it down, but it's redirecting everyone who visits a site with FB Connect on it to this error page. For example: http://www.economist.com

Yes hehehe. Someone will be fired today. :(

That's not how Facebook does things. Actually if you haven't taken down the site, you'll be warned.

Re: Facebook Connect was down

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Post by mxxx »

A perfect case study in why the current practice of "just add a script tag with 'facebook.com/whatever.js' into your page and all your LIKE buttons will work magically!" is an absolutely terrible idea.
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