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Facebook down

And now it's back. Only down for about 15 minutes, but that's some serious interruption to such a pervasive service.
 
I love the real specific error message. "Something went wrong."

Ya think?

They could at least have been funny about it, maybe say "One on't cross beams gone owt askew on treadle."
 
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Dude111 said:
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Facebook is the most intrusive site online,anytihng that keeps them down is good!!
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I'll guess that's only if you have or had an acct.
I all but never get fb links, and no real ads... I don't know that I've ever been on the live site as a guest (can one?).
Twitter is far more annoying in that so many screen caps are live and clicking to zoom in to read the tiny text, link jumps to the site (NO, I don't want to install the app thank you, again.) and worse is any pinterest link now that they locked off the site to guest browsing a year or more ago. That's just rude. [emoji3525]

I think fb morphed/grew into a scourge that should be wiped from the face of the Earth... but I honestly can't call them intrusive on my online life (the minds of their members... that's a different story).

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Down currently, for several hours this time. Along with InstaGram and WhatsApp. Suspiciously, after the 60 Minutes bombshell interview shown yesterday. Announced in a Tweet, btw.

Looks to me like "If you don't want to play my way, I'm going to take my ball and go home."

Maybe the ISF can take its place!
 
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alfaniner said:
Down currently, for several hours this time. Along with InstaGram and WhatsApp. Suspiciously, after the 60 Minutes bombshell interview shown yesterday. Announced in a Tweet, btw.

Looks to me like "If you don't want to play my way, I'm going to take my ball and go home."

Maybe the ISF can take its place!
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I said something similar to my coworker, to the effect of Mark Z taking his ball and going home:D
 
alfaniner said:
Down currently, for several hours this time. Along with InstaGram and WhatsApp. Suspiciously, after the 60 Minutes bombshell interview shown yesterday. Announced in a Tweet, btw.

Looks to me like "If you don't want to play my way, I'm going to take my ball and go home."

Maybe the ISF can take its place!
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What interview was that?
 
Conspiracy Theorists are having a field day with this.

This week was scheduled to have 3 days or 10 days of darkness and some interpreted this as just meaning that the internet would go dark. They've made this prediction a million times but some of them seem to think this is FINALLY it!

They'll be crushed when it comes back online and Donald Trump is still not president anymore.
 
Maybe Zuck is taking a hint from Ready Player One and just closing down FB on Monday afternoons, in an effort to ensure people socialize in real life.

...Naaaahhhh...
 
Internet rumor mill is mentioning that it's a router issue (nuked the BGP routes), with speculation that the outage took out access to the routers themselves. So the resolution needs to be done by people on site (with the routers), and that those people don't have access to do so yet.

Also that some FB employees can't enter buildings because the network outage is interfering with the authentication for access.
 
It must be that some business use FB as a crucial element. I wonder effect what a prolonged outage will have. Major implications, to be sure.

I wonder what the meme for today is going to be? "Instageddon"? "FaceBust"?
 
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alfaniner said:
Down currently, for several hours this time. Along with InstaGram and WhatsApp. Suspiciously, after the 60 Minutes bombshell interview shown yesterday. Announced in a Tweet, btw.

Looks to me like "If you don't want to play my way, I'm going to take my ball and go home."
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If the purpose was to throw a political tantrum, why conceal it as a technical issue? Lots of us will fail to see it as a message that way.
 
Well, if you have an ad campaign through them, that would be affected. I'm sure lots of smaller businesses have company information there.

I don't work at FB, but I have worked at similar "big tech" places. Ad and similar product revenue adds up fast. All of our customer-facing degradations and outages have a "learnings and followup" that is public for operational staff and comes with a $$ cost figure attached. One little portion of our site down for 10 minutes is a huge revenue hit. I remember a couple of "the whole site is down!" problems, but none lasted more than 20 minutes. I can't imagine the stress for folks trying to solve this. I get butterflies when I break our test machines.
 
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