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Facebook has nearly 10% of the global population as monthly active users. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? I bet you also don't even own a TV.
I bet you also don't even own a TV. That's true. I got rid of TV five years ago. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? Fascinated, not surprised.
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Facebook has nearly 10% of the global population as monthly active users. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? I bet you also don't even own a TV.
I bet you also don't even own a TV. That's true. I got rid of TV five years ago. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? Fascinated, not surprised.
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.
Maybe it won't come back up
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?
Also, while not stated in the guidelines, I imagine a text submission would also be appropriate for this sort of situation.
Funny that this is how I find out fb's ipv6 has their name in it (pinging their url)... :) 2a03:2880:2040:7f01:face:b00c:0:1