Facebook was down • Hacker News Board

avoid3d wrote: post #191

kyriakos wrote: post #141

Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.

Perspective: 1 hours downtime a year is already better than 4 9s

Yes but that is 1 hour downtime added to your own server's downtime.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by mseebach » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:41 AM UTC

acesubido wrote: post #67

This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interestin…

What? Displaced? The common man? Reality check, dude.

Nobody is on Facebook constantly. It was down for about 30 minutes, tops. The "common man" just did whatever common men do for all those minutes when they're not on Facebook. Maybe, maybe not, they'll make up the slack later.

Sure, someone was inconvenienced because they relied on being able to find some information or send a message on Facebook and couldn't, but I'll bet far, far more people are inconvenienced on a daily basis in a similar way when their smartphone runs out of battery or is stolen or otherwise lost. Or the network (mobile or fixed line) is down.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by sidcool » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:41 AM UTC

It's up for me now!! (India)

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Post by shashwat986 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:45 AM UTC

It's up.

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Post by LunaSea » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:49 AM UTC

daimyoyo wrote: post #202

pizza wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

drop in the bucket

I would hardly call more than a half a million dollars a "drop in the bucket."

Value is relative. So yes it is in fact a "drop in the bucket".

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Post by Gonzih » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:49 AM UTC

makaiookami wrote: post #189

sixQuarks wrote: post #74

What if they accidentally deleted everything and don't have a backup?

Not even possible. Once you delete something it stays on facebook for like weeks. They would have to have accidentally blown up everything with a bomb to have the problem you're talking about.

wat?