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Re: Facebook was down

#102
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…

- "who really cares anyway"

Imagine how many people are locked out of thousands of websites where the only way to sign in and check your order or something is by using Facebook login, which is not working.

Re: Facebook was down

#106

This is the first time I'm seeing FB down. Usually I would just assume my internet connection suck but this time, FB is agreeing that they are down.

Down in Menlo Park, California!

Re: Facebook was down

#109
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 interesting to HN when any high scalability, high availability service is down.

Re: Facebook was down

#110
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?

Progress?
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