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Post by tracyhenry » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.

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Post by Wistar » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

antocv wrote: post #29

boplicity wrote: post #22

During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.

All the hate and comments but you forgot what keeps it on. The ads. All the ads.

My God, it's full of ads.

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Post by jeffbee » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

So, experts, someone explain why it would take half a day to advertise your routes. What did they need to do?

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Post by nazgulsenpai » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

Did this have any impact on Occulus users? I know the big Facebook login controversy -- this might have been a good example of why that's a horrible idea.

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Post by Wistar » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

tracyhenry wrote: post #31

And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.

Yes. This seems to me to be true.

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Post by GrifMD » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:08 PM UTC

I'm seeing an unusual amount of reddit style small comments on this outage, which I find strange. They're short and in the vein of "Facebook is down: good" or "Facebook is back up: damn nothing good lasts forever"

I understand the distain for Facebook as a business, but still this is pretty low effort.

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Post by antocv » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

cybernautique wrote: post #14

Very disappointing. Hopefully some enterprising ransomware gang can do the world a service and encrypt all of FB's data for them, possibly upgrade all of their servers and backups to being /dev/null hosts entirely. A man can dream.

The way to destroy Facebook and the likes of it, is not by encrypting all of its data or even parts of it or sending it to /dev/null.

The best attack would be in fact to display war footage from Syria, the Collateral Damage video and such gore to random people at random times, instead of ads perhaps. And to the other side who wouldnt mind the violence and gore, show them pornhub clips.

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Post by andrewxdiamond » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

grzracz wrote: post #5

Can't wait for the post mortem technical post

Facebook, unlike other big tech companies, has no financial incentive to share postmortems. Others are bound by SLA agreements with business customers.

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Post by tlrobinson » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

davide_v wrote: post #26

mbStavola wrote: post #21

Damn, nothing good ever lasts huh? Even if it was only a few hours things have significantly improved in my life in the period it went down. Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.

"only a few hours" for Facebook is literally billions.

Only $13.3 million per hour in revenue [1], but about $45 billion in market cap today [2].

1. https://fortune.com/2021/10/04/facebook-outage-cost-revenue-...

2. https://www.google.com/finance/quote/FB:NASDAQ

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Post by Covzire » Mon, Oct 04, 2021, 10:10 PM UTC

lifthrasiir wrote: post #28

boplicity wrote: post #22

During the time Facebook (and related properties) have been unavailable, I can't help but feel a little better about the world. There is so much hate, arguments, misinformation, angry, and harmful messaging on FB platforms. It's nice to know all of that crap is just....gone. At least for a little while.

Unfortunately Twitter was still alive and QAnon conspiracy accounts were making fun of Facebook. Maybe next time.

Someone was wrong on the internets? BRING IN THE FEDS!