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

intopieces wrote: post #62

zeeed wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

As others have mentioned in this post, Facebook is used as a log in for many other websites and services. Whatever your personal feeling is about Facebook, it's an integral aspect of user interaction with websites far outside of its native social network platform. For this reason, the condescending guffaws are out of place.

thanks for the reply. I indeed had not considered the login-aspect of it. I'm not working in the website/online service business (and neither do I use facebook) so this helps me understand better.

For the rest, I added a clear note.

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

#74

Post by Jokester » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:41 PM UTC

ChickeNES wrote: post #55

JohnTHaller wrote: post #23

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

Yup, Tinder is not working for me.

Has it ever? ;)

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

#75

Post by Aqueous » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

benburton wrote: post #64

bzmwillemsen wrote: post #42

It's back up: 12:23 EDT

It's a huge pet peeve of mine when people use EST when we're in daylight savings time. This, presumably, should be 12:23 EDT. Also, it's not back up.

The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.

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

#76

Post by malloreon » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:42 PM UTC

Please don't use facebook. it is bad for you.

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

#77

Post by benburton » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:46 PM UTC

Aqueous wrote: post #75

benburton wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a huge pet peeve of mine when people use EST when we're in daylight savings time. This, presumably, should be 12:23 EDT. Also, it's not back up.

The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.

Sure, me too. However, using the incorrect abbreviation (and thereby referencing incorrect timestamps) is certainly not going to have any positive effects on the situation.

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

#78

Post by ceejayoz » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:49 PM UTC

olivermarks wrote: post #17

..and US productivity is up...

If you count F5 usage and posting to Twitter about how Facebook is down to be productive, sure.

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

#79

Post by Istof » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:51 PM UTC

Maybe it won't come back up

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

#80

Post by bzmwillemsen » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:53 PM UTC

benburton wrote: post #77

Aqueous wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.

Sure, me too. However, using the incorrect abbreviation (and thereby referencing incorrect timestamps) is certainly not going to have any positive effects on the situation.

Sorry, like many I barely recognize daylight savings. But this is super off-topic now.