Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?
I can confirm, HN, GitHub and Slack are very slow for me as well. Google is very fast, on the other hand.
Also slow here. I can't see anything on the AWS Service Dashboard https://status.aws.amazon.com
Facebook-owned sites were down
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#282How much revenue does facebook loose per hour down?
This is very hard to get exactly right, because traffic isn't constant at all times, and you don't know if people won't just make up for lost time using facebook at another time of the day, etc. So you can't really know.
But, a good rule of thumb right now is about $10,000,000 per hour.
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#283makes me think, why dont porn sites ever go down ?
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#284Re: Facebook-owned sites were down
#285For 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
Everything is subjective. Especially laws.
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#286Hacker News also got so much slower, is it the load from people hoarding here after not being able to reach FB?
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#288Facebook 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
Lol exactly what I was thinking. I'm trying to keep my tinfoil hat in the closet and yet it seems odd that after there is a huge FB whistleblower story on 60 Minutes last night, all of FB goes down today.
I really hope it's just some internal technical error and not a "see, despite the bad things of FB, you really need us" move.
It's probably trivial, the timing just seems weird to me.
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#289Let's hope it's permanent.
Of all the big tech companies Facebook is the only one where it can completely disappear overnight and my life would be completely unaffected (or possibly improved by not having to explain to people I don't use facebook, please email or text me your invitations rather than use messenger). If Google, Amazon, Netflix, Apple disappeared the story would be completely different.
Facebook is an unparalleled titan in the realm of advertising and WhatsApp is basically a utility-level communication system for a big chunk of the globe. Instagram is a key cultural driver of the Western world. You many not feel any direct firsthand consequences, but the overall impact would transform the world around you.
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#290Funny 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
Seems like the perfect time to launch isisitdowndownrightnow.com.
You missed one rightnow in the middle