Facebook-owned sites were down • Hacker News Board

6510 wrote: post #616

Reminds me of a story Jack Fresco use to tell were financial workers were unable to get to work because a bridge was not usable. People were worried about terrible consequences if all these important people were unable to do their work. To their surprise life just continued as if nothing changed.

Do you mean Jacque Fresco?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by avodonosov » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:16 AM UTC

When I click the HN link I am presented with facebook login page. I don't have an account so can not proceed.

Is the article link just https://facebook.com/ ?

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by lom » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:17 AM UTC

avodonosov wrote: post #975

When I click the HN link I am presented with facebook login page. I don't have an account so can not proceed. Is the article link just https://facebook.com/ ?

No, it’s back up by now.

The link was to show that facebook was down.

Re: Facebook-owned sites were down

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Post by reilly3000 » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:20 AM UTC

reilly3000 wrote: post #717

pytlicek wrote: post #697

Who else sees their deleted messages on WhatsApp that shouldn't be there? https://twitter.com/Pytlicek/status/1445072626729242637

That is wild and definitely newsworthy. Capture as many screenshots and data as you can. FWIW it seems possible that the messages remain cached locally on your device but deleted from their servers, and with their outage they aren’t being updated to delete?

This is something to get in front of a tech journalist who covers Facebook. It’s a major breach of trust. Probably hit one of your favs with a tweet, but they also tend to list their contact info on author pages of the sites they publish for.

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Post by annadane » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 2:56 AM UTC

finolex1 wrote: post #57

RedShift1 wrote: post #7

Nothing of value was lost

I get that this in jest, but a lot of people rely on Whatsapp and FB Messenger for messaging.

Sure they do. And it's why Whatsapp needs to be broken off from Facebook, because they blatantly lied about it and only bought it to kill off their competition

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Post by evolve2k » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 3:15 AM UTC

adriancooney wrote: post #826

kossTKR wrote: post #701

Earlier quoted context omitted.

NYT tech reporter Sheera Frenkel gives us this update: > Was just on phone with someone who works for FB who described employees unable to enter buildings this morning to begin to evaluate extent of outage because their badges weren’t working to access doors. https://twitter.com/sheeraf/status/1445099150316503057

Got a good chuckle imagining a fuming Zuckerberg not being allowed into his office, thinking the world is falling apart.

Can’t get in to fix error

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Post by est » Tue, Oct 05, 2021, 3:59 AM UTC

pmlnr wrote: post #314

kossTKR wrote: post #291

Reddit r/Sysadmin user that claims to be on the "Recovery Team" for this ongoing issue: > As many of you know, DNS for FB services has been affected and this is likely a symptom of the actual issue, and that's that BGP peering with Facebook peering routers has gone down, very likely due to a configuration change that went into effect shortly before the outages happened (started roughly 1540 UTC). There are people now…

> the people with physical access is separate from the people with knowledge of [...] Welcome to the brave new world of troubleshooting. This will seriously bite us one day.

I think it's the same with supply chains.