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Re: WhatsApp Outage

#32

Post by fullstop »

mikece wrote: post #28
mikece wrote: post #4

Proof that services written in Erlang CAN go down! (Though it's probably DNS...)

Serious question: is making a joke frowned upon on HN?

Generally, yes, although if the joke is nerdy enough it is sometimes liked. It's a fine line to walk, and you're probably better off not doing it.

Re: WhatsApp Outage

#33

Post by josefresco »

mikece wrote: post #28
mikece wrote: post #4

Proof that services written in Erlang CAN go down! (Though it's probably DNS...)

Serious question: is making a joke frowned upon on HN?

Not against the guidelines(1) but generally speaking yes. Jokes without an accompanying insightful or useful comment are downvoted.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: WhatsApp Outage

#34

Post by rrr_oh_man »

jeffbee wrote: post #24
avnfish wrote: post #6

Does Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?

It's not a consumer products! It's a transformative business platform that helps enterprises of any size engage audiences, accelerate sales and drive better customer support outcomes on the platform with more than 2 billion users around the world!

It’s basically OnlyFBFans — expose yourself, but don’t get paid

Re: WhatsApp Outage

#37

Post by StressedDev »

maxloh wrote: post #16
ActorNightly wrote: post #2

Instagram down as well.

Everything else works fine for me, but the stories I shared 18 hours ago have vanished. On the webpage, Instagram's API returns a 502 error when I try to view them.

Thank you for the helpful report of your experience. I liked how you dug into the API and got the error code.

Re: WhatsApp Outage

#38

Post by rizky05 »

lenerdenator wrote: post #25
boredemployee wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the end, what platform is free from scammers?

4chan. Hear me out: No sane person would accept business opportunities presented there as anything other than a scam . Since this keeps people from engaging with potential scams, scams cannot actually work as scams. Thus, scammers are relegated to simple sh*tposting.

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Re: WhatsApp Outage

#39

Post by HenryBemis »

politelemon wrote: post #26
netsharc wrote: post #14

Curious that since it's the .in domain, the map just shows India. But if you replace it with .com, or .de, it will show the map of those countries (with .de it redirects to a German version of the domain). Someone said the other week that downdetector just monitors how many people check their site for outages, and if in a five minute time period 20000 people are looking at them to see if WhatsApp is down... then, tha…

I wonder if that behaviour could be engineered to fake an outage, though I'm unsure as to what end.

It wouldn't be much of a sabotage since the users would actually be able to access the 'service impacted'. Perhaps it could affect a stock price, but someone who sells a stock (i.e. Meta in this case) because WhatsApp had a 1-5-10-30mins downtime, is doing themselves a disservice and us a favor :)

Re: WhatsApp Outage

#40

Post by HenryBemis »

robofanatic wrote: post #12
avnfish wrote: post #6

Does Meta provide a status page for its consumer products?

https://metastatus.com/ Not sure if it officially belongs to Meta though

I whois-ed it.

metastatus.com Registered to Domain Admin Email domain@fb.com Last Updated Oct 03, 2023 Expires On Feb 22, 2025 Registrar RegistrarSEC, LLC Name Servers ns-1064.awsdns-05.org ns-1803.awsdns-33.co.uk

The email clearly points at FB.

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