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Facebook was down

101 points by jonny_eh 11y ago

dar8919 11y ago
Back up now
- jonny_eh 11y ago
  Not for me.
  - jonny_eh 11y ago
    Now it is back up for me, but sporadically. If I refresh it's sometimes still down.
- Neverbolt 11y ago
  Not to me
  - dar8919 11y ago
    Yup, looks down again =/
- IvyMike 11y ago
  Weirdly I can get in, but it only shows me two items from my feed with a "click here for more" button. Seems like some sort of load mitigation mode.
crorella 11y ago
productivity across the globe is skyrocketing
- webXL 11y ago
  Hopefully it spreads to HN!
- EarthLaunch 11y ago
  Naw everyone is just reading "Facebook is down" threads.
- jofo25 11y ago
  Except if you're working on Facebook iOS integration. Dammit Facebook! What are the odds.
rbosinger 11y ago
Ha, I actually just saw this myself and the first thing I did was switch tabs to Hacker News to see if it was being discussed. But yeah, it seems to be back up now.
CJKinni 11y ago
Weird that the link is for ?down=true I thought this is some kind of prank, but http://facebook.com http://facebook.com is also showing up as down.
- ipince 11y ago
  that was probably to get around the duplicate url check.
  - jonny_eh 11y ago
    It was. There was another post here from 271 days ago that linked directly to facebook.com, also reporting an outage.
- andrewmunsell 11y ago
  HN doesn't allow for duplicate links[^1] so the submitter used the query string to bypass that. [^1]: There's some new rules about this IIRC but I don't remember exactly what cases allow for duplicate links now.
thrusong 11y ago
Still down in Winnipeg. Alternating between a FB error page and a white page with "Service Unavailable."
ipince 11y ago
moreover, many of the sites that rely on facebook login are down too...
- talles 11y ago
  That's the part that worries me more.
muloka 11y ago
Doesn't work in Bermuda.
- samstave 11y ago
  What do you do in Bermuda?
artmageddon 11y ago
Reminds me of the scene in Social Network where Zuckerberg is screaming at Saverin on the phone about impending loss of money and subsequent downtime...
0x192 11y ago
Looks like isitdownrightnow.com is being DoS'd as a result
- bentpins 11y ago
  http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Is still up
  - datalist 11y ago
    http://sitemeer.com http://sitemeer.com works too
lol768 11y ago
Appears that the status page over at https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/ isn't loading properly either. I see either a "The connection to developers.facebook.com was interrupted while the page was loading." erorr or a "Service Unavailable" page. Not ideal for a status page.
- justinhj 11y ago
  It does actually convey the fact that everything is down pretty well
  - why-el 11y ago
    More like demonstrate.
- jonny_eh 11y ago
  It just loaded for me and says that everything is fine today. That also defeats the purpose.
  - spicyj 11y ago
    It's been updated: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/451822288359012/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901... Someone needs to go update it, you know…
    - jonny_eh 11y ago
      Apparently, but not necessarily.
- andrewstuart2 11y ago
  The status page should probably be the link for the story now, since they're back up. At least until there's a better story about why they were down.
13years 11y ago
The productivity of millions of people just went up :-)
deleted 11y ago
[deleted]
g123g 11y ago
Build fast and break things.
Villodre 11y ago
Wow, first thing I did too was check HN for updates on this.
mindcrime 11y ago
Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominos go, don't you get that? Guess it's time to test this theory, huh?
- jonny_eh 11y ago
  It's had outages before. Facebook is more entrenched now than it was back in 2005. I think they'll survive.
- scott_karana 11y ago
  Compared to the multi-day outages common to cash-strapped startups back in the day, I don't think Facebook is going to suffer unless this happens really frequently.
pgrote 11y ago
This is the error message I receive when I go to the site with cookies: Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Facebook © 2014 · Help Center Interesting it is dated 2014 and that it is a generic message without any helpful prompts. Incognito mode shows the normal sign up screen.
webXL 11y ago
They're serving a 503 page now: "503 No server is available for the request" looks like it hasn't been displayed in a while or no one cares about the copyright date: "Facebook © 2014"
why-el 11y ago
Anyone noticed the 2014 at the bottom? I guess their traditional static 404 needs some updating? :D (I am sure this is not the case)
Ayaz 11y ago
It is a relief for me to know that I found out about it after reading a tweet about it on Twitter.
ramon 11y ago
Crazy! Good thing I'm using Whatsapp :)
piyush_soni 11y ago
Back now.
- iask 11y ago
  Instead of hackers, XI came personally to collect data. FB is just being cautious ;)
ricardobeat 11y ago
Their Status page says "Facebook Platform is Healthy" but the page itself fails to load intermittently: https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
sshillo 11y ago
Status Page says they pushed new code at 9:28am PST, or right when these errors started.
- webXL 11y ago
  Whoopsies!
thrusong 11y ago
Looks like it's mostly back up, but a bit slow. Isn't this around the time they do their morning code push? EDIT: Ads don't seem to be loading, and the sidebar doesn't load intermittently.
mandeepj 11y ago
Their mobile app (iOS) is working fine
sbuccini 11y ago
This should make for a good postmortem.
- thrusong 11y ago
  I hope we do actually get a postmortem this time... The outage seems to have come from a code push, and wasn't down too long. They only seem to do postmortems when the problem stems from anything other than code.
samstave 11y ago
"Push completed 24 minutes ago" And "Major outage, started 21 minutes ago" Related?
Usu 11y ago
From: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/451822288359012/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901... "A Facebook-wide issue means the Facebook Graph API is temporarily unavailable. We're working with our core infrastructure teams to identify the issue and will update you when we have more information." I'm posting it here since it's loading intermittently.
lalt 11y ago
Here's the data from Facebook's three outages over the past month: http://bit.ly/1JAYG9X http://bit.ly/1JAYG9X

Facebook was down

101 points by jonny_eh 11y ago

dar8919 11y ago

Back up now

jonny_eh 11y ago
Not for me.
- jonny_eh 11y ago
  Now it is back up for me, but sporadically. If I refresh it's sometimes still down.
Neverbolt 11y ago
Not to me
- dar8919 11y ago
  Yup, looks down again =/
IvyMike 11y ago
Weirdly I can get in, but it only shows me two items from my feed with a "click here for more" button. Seems like some sort of load mitigation mode.

crorella 11y ago

productivity across the globe is skyrocketing

webXL 11y ago
Hopefully it spreads to HN!
EarthLaunch 11y ago
Naw everyone is just reading "Facebook is down" threads.
jofo25 11y ago
Except if you're working on Facebook iOS integration. Dammit Facebook! What are the odds.

rbosinger 11y ago

Ha, I actually just saw this myself and the first thing I did was switch tabs to Hacker News to see if it was being discussed. But yeah, it seems to be back up now.

CJKinni 11y ago

Weird that the link is for ?down=true I thought this is some kind of prank, but http://facebook.com http://facebook.com is also showing up as down.

ipince 11y ago
that was probably to get around the duplicate url check.
- jonny_eh 11y ago
  It was. There was another post here from 271 days ago that linked directly to facebook.com, also reporting an outage.
andrewmunsell 11y ago
HN doesn't allow for duplicate links[^1] so the submitter used the query string to bypass that. [^1]: There's some new rules about this IIRC but I don't remember exactly what cases allow for duplicate links now.

thrusong 11y ago

Still down in Winnipeg. Alternating between a FB error page and a white page with "Service Unavailable."

ipince 11y ago

moreover, many of the sites that rely on facebook login are down too...

talles 11y ago
That's the part that worries me more.

muloka 11y ago

Doesn't work in Bermuda.

samstave 11y ago
What do you do in Bermuda?

artmageddon 11y ago

Reminds me of the scene in Social Network where Zuckerberg is screaming at Saverin on the phone about impending loss of money and subsequent downtime...

0x192 11y ago

Looks like isitdownrightnow.com is being DoS'd as a result

bentpins 11y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ Is still up
- datalist 11y ago
  http://sitemeer.com http://sitemeer.com works too

lol768 11y ago

Appears that the status page over at https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/ isn't loading properly either. I see either a "The connection to developers.facebook.com was interrupted while the page was loading." erorr or a "Service Unavailable" page. Not ideal for a status page.

justinhj 11y ago
It does actually convey the fact that everything is down pretty well
- why-el 11y ago
  More like demonstrate.
jonny_eh 11y ago
It just loaded for me and says that everything is fine today. That also defeats the purpose.
- spicyj 11y ago
  It's been updated: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/451822288359012/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901... Someone needs to go update it, you know…
  - jonny_eh 11y ago
    Apparently, but not necessarily.
andrewstuart2 11y ago
The status page should probably be the link for the story now, since they're back up. At least until there's a better story about why they were down.

13years 11y ago

The productivity of millions of people just went up :-)

deleted 11y ago

[deleted]

g123g 11y ago

Build fast and break things.

Villodre 11y ago

Wow, first thing I did too was check HN for updates on this.

mindcrime 11y ago

Okay, let me tell you the difference between Facebook and everyone else, we don't crash EVER! If those servers are down for even a day, our entire reputation is irreversibly destroyed! Users are fickle, Friendster has proved that. Even a few people leaving would reverberate through the entire userbase. The users are interconnected, that is the whole point. College kids are online because their friends are online, and if one domino goes, the other dominos go, don't you get that? Guess it's time to test this theory, huh?

jonny_eh 11y ago
It's had outages before. Facebook is more entrenched now than it was back in 2005. I think they'll survive.
scott_karana 11y ago
Compared to the multi-day outages common to cash-strapped startups back in the day, I don't think Facebook is going to suffer unless this happens really frequently.

pgrote 11y ago

This is the error message I receive when I go to the site with cookies: Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on it and we'll get it fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Facebook © 2014 · Help Center Interesting it is dated 2014 and that it is a generic message without any helpful prompts. Incognito mode shows the normal sign up screen.

webXL 11y ago

why-el 11y ago

Anyone noticed the 2014 at the bottom? I guess their traditional static 404 needs some updating? :D (I am sure this is not the case)

Ayaz 11y ago

It is a relief for me to know that I found out about it after reading a tweet about it on Twitter.

ramon 11y ago

Crazy! Good thing I'm using Whatsapp :)

piyush_soni 11y ago

Back now.

iask 11y ago
Instead of hackers, XI came personally to collect data. FB is just being cautious ;)

ricardobeat 11y ago

Their Status page says "Facebook Platform is Healthy" but the page itself fails to load intermittently: https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/

sshillo 11y ago

Status Page says they pushed new code at 9:28am PST, or right when these errors started.

webXL 11y ago
Whoopsies!

thrusong 11y ago

Looks like it's mostly back up, but a bit slow. Isn't this around the time they do their morning code push? EDIT: Ads don't seem to be loading, and the sidebar doesn't load intermittently.

mandeepj 11y ago

Their mobile app (iOS) is working fine

sbuccini 11y ago

This should make for a good postmortem.

thrusong 11y ago
I hope we do actually get a postmortem this time... The outage seems to have come from a code push, and wasn't down too long. They only seem to do postmortems when the problem stems from anything other than code.

samstave 11y ago

"Push completed 24 minutes ago" And "Major outage, started 21 minutes ago" Related?

Usu 11y ago

From: https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/451822288359012/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/issues/45182228835901... "A Facebook-wide issue means the Facebook Graph API is temporarily unavailable. We're working with our core infrastructure teams to identify the issue and will update you when we have more information." I'm posting it here since it's loading intermittently.

lalt 11y ago

Here's the data from Facebook's three outages over the past month: http://bit.ly/1JAYG9X http://bit.ly/1JAYG9X