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Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#31

Post by liquidgecka » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

vzaliva wrote: post #27

It might seem obvious, but I'd like to highlight that this illustrates another benefit of a distributed system like Mastodon. Even if one of the Mastodon servers goes down, the others will continue to function.

Ahh yes.. replace the SPOF with a distributed SPOF /s :-)

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#32

Post by clipsy » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:23 AM UTC

slimebot80 wrote: post #22

r00fus wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was that image of Elon before he started using Ozempic

I don't know, ketamine can also make you bloated, evidently.

Was ketamine also causing the male pattern baldness he had before his hair implants?

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#33

Post by evbogue » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:24 AM UTC

Maybe someone backed it up?

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#34

Post by Brajeshwar » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:25 AM UTC

It used to be a celebration of how popular Twitter was becoming when one sees the Fail Whale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#35

Post by irrational » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:25 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #8

mmastrac wrote: post #4

In the early days of Twitter at least we'd get the fail whale. I would love to go back to the early energy of Twitter but not like this...

I'd hate to see what Elon would choose as a fail whale equivalent.

Whale Tail

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#36

Post by jerojero » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:26 AM UTC

Seems to be going for a while.

I wonder if we'll get some kind of clarification on what happened. Those posts are always fun to read as you get to see what goes wrong on big software with millions of users!

It should be back working soon, i hope. Hopefully no data is lost.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#37

Post by gigglesupstairs » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:26 AM UTC

haneefmubarak wrote: post #23

(slightly) earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38717326

@dang please merge the threads.

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#38

Post by hubraumhugo » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:27 AM UTC

Imagine working for Twitter ops and getting a phone call from angry Elon at your Xmas party, with a festive hat on, enjoying your beer, and then having to tell everybody you have to leave for the office now at 11 pm.

Any such real-world stories?

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#39

Post by justinzollars » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:28 AM UTC

Brajeshwar wrote: post #34

It used to be a celebration of how popular Twitter was becoming when one sees the Fail Whale - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#Outages

Yeah, they need to bring the fail whale back!

Re: Is Twitter/X Down

#40

Post by Aitizazk » Thu, Dec 21, 2023, 6:30 AM UTC

Sucks for the oncall engineers