Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

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Post by film42 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

Looks like the service is coming back online now. Every other request works at this point.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#22

Post by codemaster3000 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

kiyoto wrote: post #7

When I submitted http://www.facebook.com , it redirected me back to the previous outage link because the URL is the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 I added a random URL string to have HN recognize this as a new entry. Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates?

Definitely sounds like a good idea. Man, there are so many improvements I wish HN would make, but everytime I see a good idea, it gets completely ignored, downvoted into oblivion, or removed by the mods.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

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Post by JohnTHaller » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

And all the companies that decided to rely on Facebook Login for their website take a breath and think 'oh fuuudge'.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

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Post by veb » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

I just noticed it too: http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&t=ce5fc7ac6a...

Note: I'm in New Zealand, and I still can't access it.

Sorry about the screenshot I still haven't figured out how to share images directly via ownCloud.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#25

Post by gearoidoc » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

Maybe it's another experiment to see what type of stuff we post after an outage.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#26

Post by jontro » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

Typical this happens when I'm pushing fixes to our facebook integration app a friday evening. First I thought it was me hitting request throttling limits...

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:20 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#28

Post by qwerta » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

VKontakte (Russian facebook) was down a couple of days ago...

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#29

Post by martin_ » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #12

"Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces" https://developers.facebook.com/status/

Now the status page is down too! Awesome

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#30

Post by jgrahamc » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

As someone who doesn't use Facebook I'm always fascinated by these threads because they show how much some people depend on Facebook (or at least addicted to it).