Facebook broke the internet

http://developers.facebook.com/bugs/203275643103137

by zachallia • 14 years ago

35 20 14 years ago

developers.facebook.com

zachallia3• 14 years ago

Kinda crazy how many sites rely on the Facebook JS SDK for login and other stuff. Definitely still ways to access the API, but if you don't have good fallbacks, you're screwed.

veyron2• 14 years ago

Is there a way to see this content without a facebook account?

evanwalsh• 14 years ago

Here's a screenshot: http://cl.ly/Du20/o

veyron2• 14 years ago

Thanks! By the way: that app (I just downloaded Cloud) is really slick.

zachallia3• 14 years ago

ah, sorry.. i didn't realize it was only devs that had access to the bug site

nilved• 14 years ago

Another reason why Connect shouldn't be your only sign-in option. :)

artursapek• 14 years ago

Talk about timely, right?

harryh• 14 years ago

FYI the incident appears to have lasted from approx 6:55pm PST to 8:22pm PST for a total of 87 minutes.

foxhop• 14 years ago

What is more upsetting? Facebook really broke the internet when it put a LOGIN WALL in front of content.

Why should I have to login to facebook to view that page?

Facebook broke the internet for completely different reasons.

jdale27• 14 years ago

Gee, I didn't notice...

AznHisoka• 14 years ago

I'm still awaiting the day when the Google CDN version of JQuery goes down.

zachallia3• 14 years ago

doomsday

simonsarris• 14 years ago

In case others are wondering, its quite easy to make a "fallback" when using CDN scripts. For instance:

  <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js"></script>  
  <script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/libs/jquery-1.6.4.min.js'></script>")</script>

Could save all such sites that rely on Google CDN jQuery

nbpoole• 14 years ago

It happened almost a year ago!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095

FlemishBeeCycle• 14 years ago

That's been one of my concerns, the best way to circumvent that issue is to do something like the following:

   <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
   <script>window.jQuery || document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path/to/jquery.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script>

This way it will fallback to a local copy if Google's goes down.

[Edit: simonsarris replied with something similar as I was replying, however, the advantage of using unescape is that you don't get invalid markup warnings]

notatoad• 14 years ago

this is the second story on the front page right now claiming something "broke the internet". can we stop this sensationalist tripe before it goes any further?

marshray• 14 years ago

So I'm getting the picture that Facebook didn't break the internet. Facebook broke a bunch of websites that made the intentional design decision to depend on Facebook for their own availability.

Is this right?

jfornear• 14 years ago

Right, like http://openpoke.org stayed up.

X-Istence• 14 years ago

What did Facebook break? My internet seems to have been functioning and still functions perfectly.

rokhayakebe• 14 years ago

Really? I've been online all day, and I didn't notice.

Facebook broke the internet

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