Can't wait what Google+ has to say.
Facebook was down
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Re: Facebook was down
#232Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That's pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.
This is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margin…
If your business is "facebook games", it's rather hard not to build it on Facebook.
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#234And suddenly the world had no idea what kind of [fruit/turnip/pair of socks] they are.
Today Facebook is potato.
Re: Facebook was down
#235What's the point of a status page if it goes down too? https://developers.facebook.com/status/
Also no update yet on the problem. (except for a major spike in api ping times.)
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#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
wat?
The don't actually delete your posts, they mark them as deleted. If the government requests your data they get to see everything, even those posts you decided to delete.
I think the above post was referring to Facebook losing their data, by their database actually failing. That would mean the hidden deleted posts are also removed. Of course, they wouldn't have a single database or copy of the data, so this is irrelevant.
As for not deleting data that you request to be deleted, that's normal practice. I know on every site I run, when someone clicks delete, it flags the content and it's hidden, but remains in the database. Deleted data is still valuable data, and it has a wide variety of uses.
Re: Facebook was down
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margin…
What are you talking about? Everyone has to depend on some infrastruture to provide their service. I'd imagine pretty much every hosting platform (from amazon to dreamhost) has less reliability than facebook.
(S)he's talking about if you rely on an API/Third Party service over hosting.
You can packup your application and move it to Amazon/Rackspace/DigitalOcean, but if you use Facebook login exclusively or use a third party API for a core service and they decide to change (as GP suggests), you're fucked.
Re: Facebook was down
#239Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That's pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.
This is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margin…
"copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free" - this is a possibility no matter what you do
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#240Earlier quoted context omitted.
So now you're down when you make a mistake and when facebook makes a mistake.
there is a bug in your logic. Correct operator is "or".
Programming use of logical operators and regular speech is not compatible. I agree that this is a bug in the English language but this is a forum, not a computer program.