Yeah Fb is down is most important event in the world now than poverty and hunger. Priorities.
Thanks for downvote. I am honored.
Facebook was down
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#212While it was down, I was noticing an extra 400ms latency in ping responses.
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#213Definitely news worthy, pretty much like a 'first post!' post.
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#214Are 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 another reason why OAuth should be on a separate subdomain. (First reason is XSS on facebook.com which can grant any permissions to any app.)
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#215Are 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 margin…
What are you talking about? Everyone has to depend on some infrastruture to provide their service. I'd imagine pretty much every hosting platform (from amazon to dreamhost) has less reliability than facebook.
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#216best way to find out how many people in HN are active fb users .
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#217And it's back up. Would be interesting to find out what happened.
I guess that bug happened.
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#218This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interestin…
Displaced? You probably use it too much. You're very very grossly overestimating the importance of facebook in people's lives.
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#219This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interestin…
What? Displaced? The common man? Reality check, dude. Nobody is on Facebook constantly. It was down for about 30 minutes, tops. The "common man" just did whatever common men do for all those minutes when they're not on Facebook. Maybe, maybe not, they'll make up the slack later. Sure, someone was inconvenienced because they relied on being able to find some information or send a message on Facebook and couldn't, but…
I think you underestimate facebook addiction.
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#220This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interestin…
I don't know, maybe ring the neighbours door?