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Re: Facebook was down

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Post by daledavies »

tomorgan wrote: post #88
ahaproudowl wrote: post #5

Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'. Like and follow buttons affected too. Network error on the App.

lol at "down in Wales" making it a pretty big "down" j/k ;)

Nothing like this ever happens in Wales!

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by blueskin_ »

jacquesm wrote: post #240
feider wrote: post #236

Earlier quoted context omitted.

there is a bug in your logic. Correct operator is "or".

Programming use of logical operators and regular speech is not compatible. I agree that this is a bug in the English language but this is a forum, not a computer program.

I'm having a bit of trouble finding the maintainer. Possibly OED, but they don't have much in the way of API documentation and I still haven't found the revision history for the source to submit a patch.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by grey-area »

mjburgess wrote: post #215
grey-area wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Hosting is fungible and should be easy to change, a reliance on a platform like FB or Twitter say is not.

Also, reliability is one factor out of several, it is not the only, or even the primary, risk with using something like FB login.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by laumars »

stingraycharles wrote: post #252
laumars wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My complaint was actually about the number of submissions rather than it being submitted or that people shouldn't care.

Ok if that was the case, I understand the sentiment, but the words you chose to make that point were badly chosen.

Yeah, very true. I did launch into quite an inflammatory rant.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by mattkrea »

gbog wrote: post #255
mattkrea wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This happens to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not a good enough excuse when, for example, the corporate sites I run go down. No application, desktop or web app, is truly bulletproof.

Ok, but some are more than others. Facebook is not famous for its outages, as far as I know.

You are correct as far as I know. Interestingly enough most of the troubles I used to have were with the absurd amounts of JavaScript on their site and failed XHRs--no full outages.

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by facepalm »

acesubido wrote: post #67

This 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…

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