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

#53

It's back up: 12:23 EDT

Nope. Still down at 12:28pm EST. I think they managed to get some regions working for a bit. And the beta site is working. But it still just shows the error page for me here on Time Warner Cable in NYC. Not too concerned as I don't use Facebook for anything critical.

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

#54
post #35

..and US productivity is up...

except for HN where the post is #1 right now. This is beyond my understanding. What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? (this is not an attempt to troll, it's a serious question)

Quite nearly a billion daily active users, for a start.

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

#56
post #51

Facebook is up. They did not mention anything on their Twitter page.

Sorry, something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.

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Definitely down for me. Good thing I don't have a FB account.

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

#57

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

After Facebook took down the Internet last time, they updated all of the script snippets that they have and added an "async" attribute to them. The functionality is still missing when FB goes down, but the site you're looking at still loads quickly.

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

#59
post #35

..and US productivity is up...

except for HN where the post is #1 right now. This is beyond my understanding. What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? (this is not an attempt to troll, it's a serious question)

facebook is a huge tech company much on the scale of google. People are curious because it's like watching Goliath trip himself and fall down.
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