Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.
Perspective: 1 hours downtime a year is already better than 4 9s
Facebook was down
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#192How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…
I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that nobody should care about Facebook being down, and that "a few people" depend on Facebook's SSO. This has a major impact on a lot of sites, and there are millions of people that do care about Facebook. It is worthy of a HN submission, although I personally care most about the postmortem to find out what went wrong.
My complaint was actually about the number of submissions rather than it being submitted or that people shouldn't care.
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#193And it's back up. Would be interesting to find out what happened.
seems that lots of pics r not loaded
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#194In related news, productivity highs appear in workplaces around the world... [Edit] It's down down under as well.
Sitting there hitting F5 == productivity?
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#195Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That's pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.
This is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margins until your business is no longer viable, or simply make your business impossible because of indifference to your requirements.
That the service may be unreliable and it's one more point of failure is just one of the reasons why it's a bad idea to depend on FB (or Twitter, or G+ login) for your logins, and this is why their attempt to subsume the web with corporate corrals will ultimately fail.
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#197It is up for me now, but there are still a lot of bugs. Most likely their database cluster is being partitioned. My newest feed was liked by some of my friends even though I can't see it in my timeline or newsfeeds :)
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#198Re: Facebook was down
#199How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…
- "who really cares anyway" Imagine how many people are locked out of thousands of websites where the only way to sign in and check your order or something is by using Facebook login, which is not working.
My complaint was actually about the number of submissions rather than it being submitted or that people shouldn't care.
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#200This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.