Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by cecilpl2 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

yawnxyz wrote: post #113

Funny enough, I went to https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ to check if Facebook is down, and isitdownrightnow is down itself... probably from the massive number requests coming to check if Facebook is down

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by tantalor » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

subsaharancoder wrote: post #96

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

A lot of people, many of them home based businesses, also rely on FB Marketplace as a primary source of income.

That's terrifying.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by chki » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

milankragujevic wrote: post #9

Also Speedtest.net for me is showing a 503 error page. Seems a large CDN might be having problems. Their status page shows all green. FB and their other sites are also down. edit: I see it's back up and I've been getting downvoted, here's a screenshot of the error for clarity https://i.imgur.com/wvhOwwL.png

If Facebook and WhatsApp and Instagram fails there are probably a lot of people checking whether their Internet works. That might be why Speedtest was overwhelmed.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by heywherelogingo » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:07 PM UTC

erdos4d wrote: post #105

finolex1 wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get that this in jest, but a lot of people rely on Whatsapp and FB Messenger for messaging.

I certainly do and I dream of the day that everyone I message switches, so I can too.

Why not lead the way?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by htrp » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

Facebook is proving that it's systemically important by taking the entire site down.....

Zuckerberg is taking his ball and going home unless you stop writing mean things about him /s

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by johnwheeler » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

much value was gained!

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by totaldude87 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:08 PM UTC

wonder how much of internet traffic as a whole is down now..

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

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Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by paul7986 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:09 PM UTC

finolex1 wrote: post #57

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

I get that this in jest, but a lot of people rely on Whatsapp and FB Messenger for messaging.

They relied on AOL Instant Messenger too...