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Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by cronix »

ceejayoz wrote: post #109
cronix wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...

The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports. It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.

Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by bradhe »

taurath wrote: post #66
linsomniac wrote: post #53

Could this be related to the storm? I was out shoveling, and came back in to my phone blowing up. Our systems at IronMountain (formerly Fortrust) in Denver all rebooted at once. These are all on redundant power, each systems redundant power supplies connecting to different circuits entering the cabinet, and those two circuits fed from 3 PDUs (two separate, one share). Each of those is supposed to be fed by a separate…

“Outage, what outage?” Is a sort of laughable response but all too common with tons of providers.

I'm looking at you, AWS...

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by anigbrowl »

nabla9 wrote: post #59

Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?

For hours, not especially - it's annoying but no worse than a power cut. There could even be benefits.

On the other hand, if someone were to sabotage the platform and prove/convincingly argue that they induced the failure, at minimum it would do significant damage to the tech sector and at maximum cause public panic.

This is a hypothetical, not speculation on the cause of this outage.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by ceejayoz »

cronix wrote: post #111
ceejayoz wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports. It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.

Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.

That doesn't make any sense, given that the "traffic" tab's scale says "7% above normal".

The red are the areas with the most attacks, and as you'd expect, they correspond to large population centers. (It's also not very granular, and appears to largely correspond to "where does Akamai have a datacenter".)

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by [deleted] »

jsgo wrote: post #80
bargl wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the only reason your comment gets down voted is because it's biased only to one side. I see about what Jon Oliver states as if I remember correct 1/2 as many conspiracy posts from about Trump (Edit: I meant to write conservatives write 2x as many conspiracy posts as democrats. This was not represented in my previous sentence.). It's annoying. I guess to accurately represent things on Facebook you'd have to sa…

it really goes to show how different all of our feeds are based on who we are friends with (and of those, who we interact with the most). Anecdotally, I have 3 people who will share any "conservative" attack meme (at this point, I don't even know if it counts as conservative so much as just outright attacking Democrats. Sometimes it reads more like an attack for the sake of attacking than a statement of belief in som…

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Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by zomg »

blhack wrote: post #40
zomg wrote: post #35

All my funny cat videos and memes are loading fine. Did you try rebooting your router 62 times? All joking aside, is this news? :/

One of the largest internet companies in the world having a massive, global outage? Yes, that seems like appropriate news for "hacker news", a website where people discuss technology news.

wow, tough crowd today. i didn't think people took facebook and instagram so seriously.

i'll put the sarcasm machine back in the drawer.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by brudgers »

nabla9 wrote: post #59

Serious question: Was any value lost? (this may appear sarcastic) Facebook obviously loses some ad revenue and Facebook customers may lose sales. But do Facebook/Instagram users suffer? But how does losing social media for several hours affect the quality of life of users?

I know parents who keep in touch with their children via Messenger. In part because it works in more places: Messenger works wherever there's internet over wifi not just cell service. People rely on Facebook for non-trivial reasons whether or not I (or someone else) think it's a good idea or not.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by johnchristopher »

> The team at Jefferies remains reasonably positive, and in the firm's top growth stock calls for the week we found four tech stocks that are offering more aggressive accounts good entry points. Carl Court / Getty Images

What's that weird tagline about ?

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by mic47 »

KennyFromIT wrote: post #85
minimaxir wrote: post #51

Minor update: https://twitter.com/facebook/status/1105907126424109056?s=21 > We're focused on working to resolve the issue as soon as possible, but can confirm that the issue is not related to a DDoS attack .

There's something ironic about a social media company being forced to rely on a competitor to facilitate communication between them and their users.

Why? When Facebook is down, you cannot use Facebook to communicate about the issue. That is also reason why FB still uses* irc instead of messenger for coordinating how to resolve such issues.

* Or at least used 1 year ago, when I was working there.

Re: Facebook, Instagram go down around the world in an apparent outage

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Post by yalok »

Implicated wrote: post #72

Facebook's own status dashboard ( https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ ) showed no issues or outtage just 30 min ago. I run a messenger bot platform - the webhooks stopped being delivered _hours_ ago... nothing on their status page until it had been down for hours. Their current issue... "We are currently experiencing issues that may cause some API requests to take longer or fail unexpectedly. We are inv…

that page is down now as well
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