Facebook was down

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by z0a • 12 years ago

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facebook.com

sudeep12• 12 years ago

It is down from here Nepal too.

nicoduc• 12 years ago

down from France

mikesena• 12 years ago

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

sidcool4• 12 years ago

Actually looks like that; I am getting the following message:

Sorry, Something went wrong.

We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.

Go Back

Edit - This is India reporting.

marak830• 12 years ago

Same from japan

ahaproudowl• 12 years ago

Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'.

Like and follow buttons affected too.

Network error on the App.

tomorgan2• 12 years ago

lol at "down in Wales" making it a pretty big "down"

j/k ;)

daledavies• 12 years ago

Nothing like this ever happens in Wales!

creativityhurts2• 12 years ago

Definitely down http://cl.ly/W9Vm

tomorgan2• 12 years ago

and from here (UK)

sawmebabe• 12 years ago

Zimbabwe

agiledevers• 12 years ago

Spain

imaginenore• 12 years ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

gchokov3• 12 years ago

I took off my wlan cable on and off. It didn't help. Then I stopped the electricity for a moment - I believe in complete cold restarts. Still nothing :)

octagonal• 12 years ago

Reposting this from my own "Facebook is down" thread because this one has more visibility:

pi@pi ~ $ curl -I http://facebook.com/

HTTP/1.1 503 No server is available for the request

Server: proxygen

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:54:55 GMT Connection: close

Content-Length: 2131

afshinmeh• 12 years ago

Finally.

ashdav2• 12 years ago

Down from Australia

buf• 12 years ago

Down from London as well

JacobAldridge• 12 years ago

In related news, productivity highs appear in workplaces around the world...

[Edit] It's down down under as well.

sidcool4• 12 years ago

Fortunately, we don't have access to Facebook from work. But unfortunately, Hacker News works :)

blueskin_4• 12 years ago

Sitting there hitting F5 == productivity?

xnerak• 12 years ago

Down from Singapore too. At first, I thought they had finally blocked facebook at work.

nowords• 12 years ago

UK can confirm

dodyg• 12 years ago

Down in Egypt

bolaft• 12 years ago

Is this a first? I can't remember the last time it happened.

Edit: down in France as well.

brianlovin• 12 years ago

$2.5b revenue in Q12014. ~$321 revenue per second. A costly outage, no?

pizza• 12 years ago

drop in the bucket

daimyoyo2• 12 years ago

I would hardly call more than a half a million dollars a "drop in the bucket."

th0br0• 12 years ago

and Germany. First major outage, no?

Rygu• 12 years ago

Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That's pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.

chintan100• 12 years ago

Could not use Connect with Facebook in an iOS app. So their APIs seem to be down as well.

nostromo• 12 years ago

Yes.

OAuth dialogs don't load and the graph API is down too.

rodgerd• 12 years ago

"Why write your own login? Just use Facebook!" is not looking like sound advice right about now.

montag• 12 years ago

gprasanth• 12 years ago

Graph API is down: http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture

mts_• 12 years ago

Yeah, it seems to be everything.

Also affects the like buttons across the web, see the error on an old TC article here: http://cl.ly/image/2Q3V1X240D12

gasda• 12 years ago

Maybe it will stay down long enough so sites stop requiring facebook to interact with the site.

newbrict• 12 years ago

I feel you

travem• 12 years ago

Looks like Facebook website plugins like the comments on TechCrunch are also unavailable.

blueskin_4• 12 years ago

Reason #12,506 not to use an external site for login.

cpayne• 12 years ago

I can tell you my website goes down far more frequently (my fault) than Facebook's does

grey-area3• 12 years ago

This is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margins until your business is no longer viable, or simply make your business impossible because of indifference to your requirements.

That the service may be unreliable and it's one more point of failure is just one of the reasons why it's a bad idea to depend on FB (or Twitter, or G+ login) for your logins, and this is why their attempt to subsume the web with corporate corrals will ultimately fail.

mjburgess2• 12 years ago

What are you talking about? Everyone has to depend on some infrastruture to provide their service. I'd imagine pretty much every hosting platform (from amazon to dreamhost) has less reliability than facebook.

pjc50• 12 years ago

If your business is "facebook games", it's rather hard not to build it on Facebook.

V-2• 12 years ago

"copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free" - this is a possibility no matter what you do

dasil0032• 12 years ago

I agree with you in principle, however you are ignoring the business value the external auth provides. Specifically there is a large subset of potential users who can not be bothered to sign up for your site via email, but will login with Facebook.

If you want to take advantage of this market then there are ways to use Login with Facebook without being wholly dependent. Basically if you have full account management, but you allow third-party authentication that ties into that account, especially allowing multiple OAuth providers to be linked to a single of your internal accounts (eg. see how Stack Overflow works), you can significantly mitigate the downside.

The purist and old-school web head and open standards guy in me hates it, but you can't argue with the business case for it.

sprite• 12 years ago

Facebook deleted my personal account and disabled all my fb API keys for releasing an app for Instagram that they claim violates the Instagram tos. The app has nothing to do with Facebook. This was done with no warning.

babuskov• 12 years ago

As with all other stuff: it depends.

Using it for logins is really questionable. But if you are, for example, building a game for Facebook, it gives you many advantages, so occasional downtime is not really the biggest issue. Let's check the things you wrote about in gaming context:

- charging for the service later TRUE (viral is dead, you pay for the ads to get new players in)

- cut you out of a relationship with your own customer - somewhat FALSE (you can request e-mails from your customers, and have a direct contact afterwards). Even with fan pages, they are not cuting you out, but merely asking to pay to get your message to them

- require you to use their store TRUE, but every other platform does the same

- copy your idea and give it for free. FALSE - Facebook never made a game AFAIK

- squezee you margins. TRUE. I do notice that Cost Per Install for my games is getting higher the more I advertize, and that it suddenly jumped from about $0.15 per install to $0.50 per install a few days ago - about the same time when they switched to the new payment user interface.

homakov• 12 years ago

This is another reason why OAuth should be on a separate subdomain. (First reason is XSS on facebook.com which can grant any permissions to any app.)

kccqzy• 12 years ago

Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com

    % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com
    HTTP/1.1 200 OK
    Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000
    X-Frame-Options: DENY
    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
    P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p"
    Pragma: no-cache
    X-XSS-Protection: 0
    Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
    Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT
    Set-Cookie: reg_fb_gate=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=/; domain=.facebook.com
    Set-Cookie: reg_fb_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=/; domain=.facebook.com
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
    X-FB-Debug: [REDACTED]
    Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:03:22 GMT
    Connection: keep-alive
    Content-Length: 48441

So I'm guessing it's related to their IPv4 infrastructure. Say, a load balancer?

daGrevis• 12 years ago

Not anymore. :)

clarkm2• 12 years ago

Yep, IPv6 is down for me too.

volent3• 12 years ago

Working for me, is it giving you an error 503 like the ipv4 ?

toxicFork• 12 years ago

Interesting, maybe someone accidentally pressed the 'kill ipv4 interface' button?

yror10• 12 years ago

Progress?

Nib3• 12 years ago

It isn't now, now, the link is redirecting to the same error page!

peterkelly• 12 years ago

I think this would be the perfect "push" to get the world to transition to IPv6 :)

sandeepravi• 12 years ago

Down in India too.

Seems like a major screw up.

daimyoyo2• 12 years ago

Wow. As far as I know, this is unprecedented. A worldwide outage.

comrade1• 12 years ago

Down from the moon too.

sidcool4• 12 years ago

This is the first time I have observed upvotes piling up so fast. It was just 7 points a few minutes back, now it's 70+

ragsagar• 12 years ago

Down in Dubai, UAE

mhoad• 12 years ago

Down in Kenya

laumars4• 12 years ago

How many submissions do we need on this topic?

Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function.

I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3 submissions commenting on a procrastination portal being down is really scraping the barrel.

[edit]

I see the submissions have now been consolidated. That makes much more sense. Good work HN admins :)

KinaDeSantis• 12 years ago

Personally, I use social networks to boost productivity. Facebook is a good management tool for different groups. I have used it to manage people for the last 4 years and it has been the best platform for me to reach everyone. Sad, but true.

piyush_soni• 12 years ago

I don't understand why people are downvoting this. It's his way, if you dislike, it's not a reason enough to downvote.

stingraycharles2• 12 years ago

I think it's a bit of a stretch to claim that nobody should care about Facebook being down, and that "a few people" depend on Facebook's SSO.

This has a major impact on a lot of sites, and there are millions of people that do care about Facebook.

It is worthy of a HN submission, although I personally care most about the postmortem to find out what went wrong.

laumars4• 12 years ago

My complaint was actually about the number of submissions rather than it being submitted or that people shouldn't care.

grinich• 12 years ago

If you Google for "www" the first result is Facebook.

For many people, Facebook is how they interact with the web. It's their primary portal for talking with their friends, sharing photos, sending messages, and catching up on news stories.

Calling it a "social network" is like calling Google only a search engine. It's way, way more. And this outage is completely unprecedented. Can you recall a previous time that Facebook has been down? I can't.

laumars4• 12 years ago

I can. Though I do agree that their uptime is amongst the best.

gchokov3• 12 years ago

People are excited, since this is one of the core missions and thinking in facebook - never be down, or people will go elsewhere. That's why it's a big deal, not everyday something goes that wrong, especially in something you put a lot efforts in.

piokuc• 12 years ago

Where will the people go? An engineer from Bloomberg was telling me once about their infrastructure, how fault tolerant and highly available it is, they have redundancy everywhere, including power from two different power plants. He said if they were down for few minutes they would be out of business - users of their trading platform would switch to Reuters very quickly. But where will Facebook users go if the site is down for a day? I'm genuinely curious.

johnnyfaehell• 12 years ago

It's more that they have one of the best records for reliability. Last time they went down was how many years ago? Most sites go down once a month for a few minutes.

lubos• 12 years ago

I get the same sentiment... who cares... apparently a lot of people if this story can attain over 100 upvotes within 15 minutes.

It will be interesting to read postmortem but as far as "is down" stories go, they should be just auto-deleted from HN

usaphp2• 12 years ago

- "who really cares anyway"

Imagine how many people are locked out of thousands of websites where the only way to sign in and check your order or something is by using Facebook login, which is not working.

nly• 12 years ago

It's interesting to HN when any high scalability, high availability service is down.

ASneakyFox• 12 years ago

I also do not use face book and think it is silly. However I think the event is a little interesting. There are thousands of apps that don't even function with out face book.

masto• 12 years ago

Many of us who read Hacker News are employed in the technology industry and have a particular interest in reliability and availability of computer systems. It's not interesting that people can't post their personality quizzes, but it is very interesting that Facebook had a production outage, particularly if we are able to learn something from the failure that we can apply to future scenarios we may encounter.

ashdav2• 12 years ago

All Facebook Login sites are also broken.

*The internet is down.

porker• 12 years ago

A good time to test how fast your site loads when the FB JS can't be accessed...

waitingkuo• 12 years ago

So I can code without disruption now lol

usaphp2• 12 years ago

Facebook like boxes are not working as well.

aikah• 12 years ago

Down in Belgium.

tienlehut• 12 years ago

Down in Vietnam

siddhant3s• 12 years ago

This is the first time I'm seeing FB down. Usually I would just assume my internet connection suck but this time, FB is agreeing that they are down.

xav• 12 years ago

Down in Menlo Park, California!

7702• 12 years ago

Yeah siddhant i'm ayush I have sucking bsnl wifi but this time its not network problem of India

andystevens91• 12 years ago

Down in Italy too.

rudresh5552• 12 years ago

Its a Marketing Stunt..

mPedoBot• 12 years ago

It's down, here in Mexico

PotatoTot• 12 years ago

Yep, down here in Los Angeles, CA

rudresh5552• 12 years ago

Its a Marketing stunt...

yawboakye2• 12 years ago

Down in Ghana

fmax30• 12 years ago

Maybe they switched their network switches to use Wedge with FBOSS and it crashed under load.

prjohnson• 12 years ago

Confirmed down in Dubai (via friend).

halR• 12 years ago

Same at Turkey. http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-y...

dhwillem4• 12 years ago

Down in Belgium.

nichochar2• 12 years ago

back up, about 4 min down for me

nichochar2• 12 years ago

back up for me. 4 min

acesubido2• 12 years ago

This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser?

The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interesting 'accidental' social experiment. Honestly, I'm not that interested on what happened technically, but I'm interested what effect it had socially for the common man outside the techcrunch/HN/reddit/tech bubble.

On-topic: does facebook have a consolidated status page?

estel• 12 years ago

Not entirely consolidated, but it's down: https://developers.facebook.com/status/

manmal• 12 years ago

Part of it is going to HN, obviously :) (case in point)

mseebach• 12 years ago

What? Displaced? The common man? Reality check, dude.

Nobody is on Facebook constantly. It was down for about 30 minutes, tops. The "common man" just did whatever common men do for all those minutes when they're not on Facebook. Maybe, maybe not, they'll make up the slack later.

Sure, someone was inconvenienced because they relied on being able to find some information or send a message on Facebook and couldn't, but I'll bet far, far more people are inconvenienced on a daily basis in a similar way when their smartphone runs out of battery or is stolen or otherwise lost. Or the network (mobile or fixed line) is down.

return0• 12 years ago

I think you underestimate facebook addiction.

acesubido2• 12 years ago

I didn't use the word "common man" in an "elitist" context, I used it for avid users, which is a lot of people. Most people inside the tech world underestimate the role of facebook for a person who, all their friends, family and loved ones are using it on a daily basis.

I do agree that a lot of people, if not, everybody will not go crazy or be inconvenienced by a 30-minute downtime, not everyone is on it 24/7. I'm just saying I'm interested on where all those man-minutes went to for avid users.

Probably ringing on their neighbours' door, playing Xbox or having lunch with their family, etc.

curiousDog• 12 years ago

Displaced? You probably use it too much. You're very very grossly overestimating the importance of facebook in people's lives.

pjmlp• 12 years ago

I don't know, maybe ring the neighbours door?

3rd3• 12 years ago

We'll probably see a peak in birth rate in 9 months.

timc3• 12 years ago

The worlds population is increasing as suddenly people discover relationships in meat space ;-)

facepalm• 12 years ago

baby boom in 9 months?

azaupa• 12 years ago

down in italy ...

minhdanh72• 12 years ago

Down from China, too

ducvinh• 12 years ago

Make scene :)

alphadevx• 12 years ago

HN: the new Pingdom.

mahmoudhossam• 12 years ago

Speaking of pingdom... http://imgur.com/4r3rEGp

sixQuarks• 12 years ago

What if they accidentally deleted everything and don't have a backup?

pestaa• 12 years ago

People will start uploading their data to another walled garden.

makaiookami• 12 years ago

Not even possible.

Once you delete something it stays on facebook for like weeks.

They would have to have accidentally blown up everything with a bomb to have the problem you're talking about.

Gonzih• 12 years ago

wat?

ohwp• 12 years ago

If you mean all accounts + data I think a lot of users will just register again and start over.

If you mean all code it will be the end of Facebook.

But ofcourse this is never going to happen.

higherpurpose• 12 years ago

People will have more privacy than before.

justbaker• 12 years ago

You really think that could happen..

darksoox• 12 years ago

Can confirm. Down in Sweden too.

sublee• 12 years ago

Down in South Korea

zbxd• 12 years ago

What happened??

thethimble• 12 years ago

As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)

creativityhurts2• 12 years ago

Makes you feel happy you're not working at Facebook now :)

dhwillem4• 12 years ago

nothing wrong with a challenge !

mattkrea2• 12 years ago

This happens to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not a good enough excuse when, for example, the corporate sites I run go down.

No application, desktop or web app, is truly bulletproof.

gbog• 12 years ago

Ok, but some are more than others. Facebook is not famous for its outages, as far as I know.

maceip• 12 years ago

down in papua new guinea (south pacific)

deepaksattiraju• 12 years ago

any guesses why?

parasight• 12 years ago

Mark has stumbled over a cable.

balou• 12 years ago

Down from China ... nah it's not new

fidz• 12 years ago

I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why "a site is down" is a big news that we should care about?

ollyculverhouse• 12 years ago

Like it or hate it the Facebook site isn't just any ordinary site. Combined with the fact that its not just web access that is down, this affects all apps and sites that have Like, Follow, Recommend or Sign In integration.

nmjohn• 12 years ago

It's the second largest site in the world and it is 100% down. Not just a region going down, the entire world.

Moreover, it's not just facebook itself, any site or app that uses signin with facebook or their oauth, nope, that is not working either.

However the main reason, is I don't know if it's ever gone down before. I certainly cannot think of a time.

sas1ni69• 12 years ago

It's one of the biggest sites in the world so it's a bit different.

gerhardi• 12 years ago

I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why "a man died" is a big news that we should care about?

It's all about the context, who/what/where/etc.

wirebreather• 12 years ago

Because it's Facebook.

whbk• 12 years ago

I got the home page to load once a minute ago (in San Francisco), now back to the standard fail page.

heelhook• 12 years ago

Follow status updates on Facebook's downtime on http://twitter.com/facebook? #fail

dhwillem4• 12 years ago

Seems to be going up and down from belgium

chenster• 12 years ago

Just noticed that. Luckily, I used it only a few times a day now to avoid popularity contests.

valevk• 12 years ago

Great way to make everyone not talk about that Amazon phone!

egfx2• 12 years ago

The least they could do is fix the date on the footer. :/ I have an app that shares tweets to Facebook http://2fb.me so don't "LIKE" what's happening

egfx2• 12 years ago

Just me or is it down... again?

Nib3• 12 years ago

Holy shit, I caught Facebook when it was down!!! Yeah!!!

kosso• 12 years ago

And suddenly the world had no idea what kind of [fruit/turnip/pair of socks] they are.

FranOntanaya• 12 years ago

Today Facebook is potato.

illyasv2• 12 years ago

HCMC Vietnam down

prateek_mir2• 12 years ago

any hypotheses on what would have happened ?

ngokevin• 12 years ago

It's up in Sealand.

rPawel2• 12 years ago

Down in Frankfurt

fosron• 12 years ago

Lithuania too

minikomi• 12 years ago

It will be down until someone sends them a photo back.

7702• 12 years ago

What happened its not working ~from Raipur India

christudor• 12 years ago

Down in Hong Kong as well.

illyasv2• 12 years ago

Has anyone noticed on the Error page now, copyright is 2013? (http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/)

agumonkey• 12 years ago

This and the fact that the help URL is points to the same system, meaning free recursive loop for you.

Nib3• 12 years ago

Looks like the downtime is about to hit the half an hour mark

stephanerangaya• 12 years ago

https://www.prod.facebook.com works for me

martinmuc• 12 years ago

Uups, sorry my fault... pressed the pause key

kyriakos• 12 years ago

Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.

avoid3d• 12 years ago

Perspective: 1 hours downtime a year is already better than 4 9s

LunaSea2• 12 years ago

Yes but that is 1 hour downtime added to your own server's downtime.

Gurrewe2• 12 years ago

https://www.prod.facebook.com still works. :)

nissehulth• 12 years ago

Maybe they are trying out their new switches. http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-swit...

_up2• 12 years ago

Haha, i thought the same. But could also be the NSA sending a message to not publish this. I mean the NSA needs other Service Providers to use the closed source backdoor infested stuff.

volent3• 12 years ago

I wonder what's happening with the stock price, if anybody as any insight that'd be interesting to know.

kloncks• 12 years ago

...and they're back.

prateek_mir2• 12 years ago

hahah ! No, still the error page

vsakos• 12 years ago

It's definitely Anonymous and Operation Facebook. A bit late but with success...

xmpir• 12 years ago

rollthehard6• 12 years ago

Working again, in the UK at least 09:24 BST

bshimmin• 12 years ago

Back now. How long was that? Half an hour?

davidcelis• 12 years ago

About.

ajnaskt• 12 years ago

Facebook is up

rPawel2• 12 years ago

And it is UP!

dhwillem4• 12 years ago

And we are back (Belgium)

chipz• 12 years ago

it's already up!

lominming2• 12 years ago

Graph API seems down, but part of the API is still up. https://developers.facebook.com/status/

pknerd2• 12 years ago

Yeah Fb is down is most important event in the world now than poverty and hunger. Priorities.

pknerd2• 12 years ago

Thanks for downvote. I am honored.

volent3• 12 years ago

Facebook is back up :)

nicomoto1• 12 years ago

Its working for me now! (India)

Tamazy• 12 years ago

It sounds like the prophecy ! We all are going to die OMGOMGOMG

RutZap• 12 years ago

And it's back up. Would be interesting to find out what happened.

benzheren• 12 years ago

seems that lots of pics r not loaded

blueskin_4• 12 years ago

A lot of the AJAXey stuff isn't working properly either. A comment just took three tries to post.

watwut• 12 years ago

I guess that bug happened.

nclzz• 12 years ago

Up now in Italy

industriousthou• 12 years ago

Back up for me in Orlando.

yawboakye2• 12 years ago

It's back up

NikhilVerma• 12 years ago

Well it's back again here in the UK.

pieboy2• 12 years ago

its back now

undozen• 12 years ago

I'm from China. Facebook is down for me like ... always.

sedeki• 12 years ago

I chuckled

integricho• 12 years ago

Facebook employees, please elaborate... :)

sudeep12• 12 years ago

Now up here in Nepal

lenniez• 12 years ago

Down here in Sweden, close to the EU datacentre.

niallpaterson• 12 years ago

By my reckoning, this cost them about $600,000+. Ouch.

lominming2• 12 years ago

Back up!

pieboy2• 12 years ago

http://prntscr.com/3ubefw

keimoon• 12 years ago

It is up for me now, but there are still a lot of bugs. Most likely their database cluster is being partitioned. My newest feed was liked by some of my friends even though I can't see it in my timeline or newsfeeds :)

xanth• 12 years ago

This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.

riquito• 12 years ago

What's the point of a status page if it goes down too?

https://developers.facebook.com/status/

reitanqild• 12 years ago

Also no update yet on the problem. (except for a major spike in api ping times.)

faazshift2• 12 years ago

I wonder how much the facebook devs are freaking out right now trying to fix this!

faazshift2• 12 years ago

Facebook seems to be back again! Hopefully it stays that way! :)

sidcool4• 12 years ago

It's up for me now!! (India)

shashwat986• 12 years ago

It's up.

Ayaz• 12 years ago

While it was down, I was noticing an extra 400ms latency in ping responses.

syf81• 12 years ago

Definitely news worthy, pretty much like a 'first post!' post.

k-mcgrady• 12 years ago

One of the most popular websites in the world (that over 1/7th of the worlds population use) going down is newsworthy.

DanielStraight• 12 years ago

No one is ever going to see this post, but... no, it isn't. All sites experience downtime occasionally. Unless it is for some interesting technical reason or it is extended beyond a couple of hours, there is nothing newsworthy about it whatsoever. There is certainly nothing that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about it.

ing33k• 12 years ago

best way to find out how many people in HN are active fb users .

Kelp0• 12 years ago

Facebook shows off its DIY Networking Gear. Facebook goes down.

Coincidence?

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-it...

Gnarl• 12 years ago

Facebook was down? That's fantastic! Hopefully people looked up from their devices and: a) listened to birdsong b) amazed at flowers and plants c) initiated a conversation with someone in physical proximity d) enjoyed what was going on instead of trying to snap a photo of it for facebook e) all of the above or f) kept hitting "reload"...

peeyushcray• 12 years ago

Why it was down?

keepsmiling• 12 years ago

finaly..

justinngc• 12 years ago

Can't wait what Google+ has to say.

grahamel• 12 years ago

The statement most news sites are reporting is:

“Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused,”

justplay• 12 years ago

works good here in India.

ravitejak• 12 years ago

Any Postmortem Details available on this issue,So that it can be resourceful to others too

kclay• 12 years ago

Has facebook ever put up a post mortem of outages?

dysinger• 12 years ago

Who cares?

Facebook was down

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