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#81

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"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

You mean $945B?

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#82
~sort of~

Some features, like adding new posts or uploading photos are having problems. You can likely read your feed now, but updates will be wonky for some hours to come.

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#83

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

Same.... was it a global DNS issue or was HN overloaded from everybody looking for updates?

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#85

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

True for me as well. What would explain this? Does hn use some tracking from FB? Not trying to throw shade, but this is a surprising correlation.

Maybe HN servers share room with something that got pinned down with requests when FB was down? E.g. 100000s of devices doing a login retry loop for some app since FB auth. doesn't work, or something.

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#86

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

Well, as someone that has an app that had degraded performance due to their SDK failing to talk to Facebook servers. I FOR ONE would really like an explanation.

Then collaborate with your peers to get enough leverage over Facebook to demand this.

It’s not like FB’s market position let’s them dictate terms in an unfair way that would require a certain governing force to step in and rebalance the tables……

/s

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#87

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.

It's like that scene in approximately 500,000 movies where, for just a moment, it is revealed that the immortal arch-villain actually has a weakness, and can be killed.

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If past outages are anything to go by there’s no chance of this seeing the light of day.

This one will definitely see the light of day considering how big a deal it is. Shareholders could easily sue over it.

What makes you think shareholders could sue over this outage without knowing the cause?

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#90

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.

I saw some teenagers sitting on a field and talking instead of on their phones this afternoon. Was a pleasant surprise
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