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Re: Facebook was down

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Post by grinich »

laumars wrote: post #39

How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…

If you Google for "www" the first result is Facebook.

For many people, Facebook is how they interact with the web. It's their primary portal for talking with their friends, sharing photos, sending messages, and catching up on news stories.

Calling it a "social network" is like calling Google only a search engine. It's way, way more. And this outage is completely unprecedented. Can you recall a previous time that Facebook has been down? I can't.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by gchokov »

laumars wrote: post #39

How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…

People are excited, since this is one of the core missions and thinking in facebook - never be down, or people will go elsewhere. That's why it's a big deal, not everyday something goes that wrong, especially in something you put a lot efforts in.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by daGrevis »

kccqzy wrote: post #25

Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p" Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2…

Not anymore. :)

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by toxicFork »

kccqzy wrote: post #25

Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p" Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2…

Interesting, maybe someone accidentally pressed the 'kill ipv4 interface' button?

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by johnnyfaehell »

laumars wrote: post #39

How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…

It's more that they have one of the best records for reliability. Last time they went down was how many years ago? Most sites go down once a month for a few minutes.
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