And HackerNews seems to be much faster as soon as FB is back up. Not sure if this is just me.
Perhaps more people visiting HN during the Facebook blackout?
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#92During 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.
Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts.
I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other friends I've made on Facebook - people of all ages, backgrounds, professions, and nationalities - people I never have, and almost certainly never WOULD have, met in "real" life. In my experience & opinion as an 8+ year high volume shitposter, Facebook is the best site in the world for dating and for expanding your social horizons/circle
And I say that as a former frontend lead at Ghostery, lol
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#93And 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.
DNS resolvers worldwide being bombarded with retries from clients trying to reach FB.
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#94And 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?
Surely the moment facebook comes back up would be higher traffic as people rush to comment on it (see this thread's rapid rise).
Best guess: there's a DNS dependency in HN's critical path somewhere and the DNS server they used was being hammered with the facebook dns lookup retries.
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#95Did this have any impact on Occulus users? I know the big Facebook login controversy -- this might have been a good example of why that's a horrible idea.
FB services were down, and new device registration was unavailable, but the devices can be used offline, so this didn't brick them
However, most multiplayer games did not work and those that did could not get your username.
And for some reason games failed to appear in libraries for the first 10-15 minutes after starting a Quest, the entries for the games just didn't appear.
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#96During 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.
If you feel that Facebook is really that detrimental to your online existence, there are easier (and more persistent) ways for you to block them out of your life.
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#97Damn, nothing good ever lasts huh? Even if it was only a few hours things have significantly improved in my life in the period it went down. Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives.
> Zero anti-vax spam from FB sent to me via texts from older relatives. They probably likewise felt similar relief that they didn’t receive “Republicans bad” spam from their relatives during this time period.
At risk of continuing the devolution of this thread, anti-vax != "Republicans bad". Disingenuous false equivalence. One is the pinnacle of dangerous, malicious misinformation and the other is just a political opinion held by some that is at worst reductionistic
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#98During 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.
Facebook is very far from perfect, but it brings a lot of good to the world as well. I met my partner of almost five years thanks to Facebook's friend recommendation algorithms. I had never met them outside of Facebook and we didn't have any friends in common outside Facebook either. In fact, when we met, we lived on opposite coasts. I will always be grateful to Zuck & Co. for that, and for the hundreds of other frie…
Proof by anecdote
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#99Can't wait for the post mortem technical post
Facebook, unlike other big tech companies, has no financial incentive to share postmortems. Others are bound by SLA agreements with business customers.
FB does have business customers with (at least) Workplace.
Hence the name of this dashboard.
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#100During 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 think people could really work on self-curating/self-filtering content to make sure it's mostly what they want to see on social media.
I've made nearly a dozen friends in Japan who I've now met there on two separate trips purely through a shared interest by connecting on Instagram.
I rarely see content that I don't expect or care to see.