Facebook was down • Hacker News Board

This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser?

The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interesting 'accidental' social experiment. Honestly, I'm not that interested on what happened technically, but I'm interested what effect it had socially for the common man outside the techcrunch/HN/reddit/tech bubble.

On-topic: does facebook have a consolidated status page?

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by azaupa » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:09 AM UTC

down in italy ...

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by minhdanh72 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:09 AM UTC

Down from China, too

Re: Facebook was down

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Post by stingraycharles » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 8:09 AM UTC

laumars wrote: post #39

How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3…

I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that nobody should care about Facebook being down, and that "a few people" depend on Facebook's SSO.

This has a major impact on a lot of sites, and there are millions of people that do care about Facebook.

It is worthy of a HN submission, although I personally care most about the postmortem to find out what went wrong.