Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by subsaharancoder » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:22 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.

Many people don't realize that with the 2020 lockdown and next to zero face to face transactions happening, platforms like FB Marketplace provided an opportunity for many people to set up businesses and generate income. I understand the angst people have with FB, but there's a bigger world out there beyond our keyboards.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by donkarma » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:22 PM UTC

elboru wrote: post #169

Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?

yeah lagging for me too

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by moffkalast » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

rootusrootus wrote: post #142

And a lot of people seem to be coming to HN to find out why, judging by how laggy HN is getting right now...

Well it sure is the place to find out for sure.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by mcintyre1994 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

emptysea wrote: post #100

Interesting, even some open source sites like: https://fbinfer.com are down but https://glean.software and https://reactjs.org aren't

According to https://lookup.icann.org/lookup both glean and reactjs have Cloudflare nameservers. fbinfer has ns.facebook.com nameservers which are presumably down.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by belter » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

blowski wrote: post #154

ozfive wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This cannot be said enough.

On the contrary, it's said far too much. Facebook is extremely valuable for a lot of people. I dislike Facebook as much as most people on here, but saying "it's totally pointless" is silly and it's not surprising that those who say it are ignored by those who use Facebook.

In what ways is Facebook "extremely valuable for a lot of people"?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by carrja99 » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

Good.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by Yuioup » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

elboru wrote: post #169

Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?

Same here. Sounds like another cloudflare-like problem.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by hkai » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:23 PM UTC

spaceywilly wrote: post #144

htrp wrote: post #126

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

Let’s hope it’s this. Everyone will just shrug and move onto the next hopefully less evil site

Which one?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by keithnoizu » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

somewhere an engineer is begging a mnesia instance to come back online.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by etc-hosts » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 4:24 PM UTC

Hokusai wrote: post #137

rocho wrote: post #36

For Facebook and WhatsApp it looks like a DNS issue, name resolution fails with SERVFAIL: $ dig facebook.com ; > DiG 9.16.21 > facebook.com ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER

Is this related in any way to what happened to Slack recently in their DNS?

No

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