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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).
Facebook has nearly 10% of the global population as monthly active users. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? I bet you also don't even own a TV.
That's true. I got rid of TV five years ago.
You're surprised that people are dependant on it?
Fascinated, not surprised.
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.
I had to switch to LINE to continue a chat I had going on with a friend. Highly disruptive to my workflow.
We can neither confirm nor deny that #Anonymous had anything to do with #Facebook disruption today, nothing to see here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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After Facebook took down the Internet last time, they updated all of the script snippets that they have and added an "async" attribute to them. The functionality is still missing when FB goes down, but the site you're looking at still loads quickly.
I switched all of my social sharing widgets to static image buttons that bring up simple sharing windows just yesterday. My site loads so much faster and is completely unaffected by Facebook being down as a result.
..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)
829 million daily active users on average in June 2014
Earth population, 7.046 billion (2012)
They have a LOT of users. Any platform supporting that traffic is interesting to see how it fails.
It's back up: 12:23 EDT
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I switched all of my social sharing widgets to static image buttons that bring up simple sharing windows just yesterday. My site loads so much faster and is completely unaffected by Facebook being down as a result.
Plus, you're protecting your visitors' privacy by not leaking to Facebook/Twitter/etc. that they visited your site. Thanks for doing this!
I made a post elsewhere in this thread about it but it was downvoted. I'm thinking about packaging it up as a Drupal extension (what I run) as well as a raw package on github in the hopes that someone will be interested in doing a WordPress extension as well. There are a few posts about doing this online, but none tried to fully mimic the convenience and look of the standard buttons, so I thought folks might be interested.
it would be interesting know the technical reasons.
AFAIK they are changing the way 3rd party applications are integrated with FB, using a special set of user IDs for each app, and other privacy related changes which will limit the amount of user information apps get. It's a completely new system and probably tested on smaller user base than the entire FB. My guess is that it went into production worldwide today.
Source: I'm a FB app developer who is seriously affected by the Login and Graph API 2.0 changes.
..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)
Sure there are alternatives but it's what I've been using.