Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014) • Hacker News Board

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#31

Post by beta29a » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#32

Post by sp332 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

martin_ wrote: post #29

sp332 wrote: post #12

"Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces" https://developers.facebook.com/status/

Now the status page is down too! Awesome

It's intermittent, try reloading.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#33

Post by k-mcgrady » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

kitbrennan wrote: post #3

Facebook beta is still up: https://beta.facebook.com/

Never knew they had a beta site - but I can't see anything different. Is there a list of differences somewhere?

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#34

Post by dark_ph0enix » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

From the developers page:

21 minutes ago Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces

Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We'll update shortly.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#35

Post by zeeed » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

olivermarks wrote: post #17

..and US productivity is up...

except for HN where the post is #1 right now. This is beyond my understanding. What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important?

(this is not an attempt to troll, it's a serious question)

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#36

Post by sreyaNotfilc » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

Its amazing that the world is still turning even when Facebook is down. Hmm...

I noticed that I had trouble logging on yesterday around 4pm. I wonder what's going on.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#37

Post by resca79 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:22 PM UTC

it would be interesting know the technical reasons.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#38

Post by lihorne » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

It's back up now as of 09:22AM PDT. 14 minute downtime.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#39

Post by DanBC » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

kiyoto wrote: post #7

When I submitted http://www.facebook.com , it redirected me back to the previous outage link because the URL is the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 I added a random URL string to have HN recognize this as a new entry. Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates?

> Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates?

It would be a much much better idea if people stopped posting "X IS DOWN!!!!" submissions.

Re: Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

#40

Post by dm2 » Fri, Aug 01, 2014, 4:23 PM UTC

jgrahamc wrote: post #30

As someone who doesn't use Facebook I'm always fascinated by these threads because they show how much some people depend on Facebook (or at least addicted to it).

It probably broke a lot of websites people were working on, that's the only reason I noticed it.