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It looks like something much larger is going on. If you look at the front page of https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/ you'll see most major site

• blang 8y ago
  HN was down for a minute.
• ceejayoz 8y ago
  That site relies on user reports. I strongly suspect users are reporting "my Internet is having troubles" because their FB, Messenger, etc. isn't working right. For example, in the comments of the T-Mobile outage page, there's stuff like "Haven't been able to upload anything to social media all day" and "Cannot send pictures through whatsapp and fb messenger".
  • jnothing 8y ago
    Yeah in Turkey people thought government is slowing down/blocking the whole internet
    • ulucs 8y ago
      To be fair, the priors lean into that rather than Facebook and Whatsapp having troubles.
  • wybiral 8y ago
    I believe that too but some of the services seem unrelated (like Flickr and Capital One). Now, another interpretation is that the reports are simply false...
  • onychomys 8y ago
    That's a fair point, but those folks probably aren't reporting AWS problems, and it's showing a spike too.
    • ceejayoz 8y ago
      AWS is reporting an EC2 outage ("increased API error rates and launch failures in the US-WEST-2 Region") in Oregon currently.
  • cronix 8y ago
    That's true, but it is a good indicator. Here's a better map from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/real-time-web-monitor.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/re... Also, check out the "Attacks" tab. That one really lights up. Like seriously lights up. Something is going on... all over. US, China, Russia, EU...
    • ceejayoz 8y ago
      The attacks tab says the current count is "100% Below normal". It does not support what you think it supports. It "lights up" because there are always attacks happening.
      • cronix 8y ago
        Look at the scale. The blue area is 100% below normal. The red are way above normal.
        • ceejayoz 8y ago
          That doesn't make any sense, given that the "traffic" tab's scale says "7% above normal". The red are the areas with the most attacks, and as you'd expect, they correspond to large population centers. (It's also not very granular, and appears to largely correspond to "where does Akamai have a datacenter".)
          • snazz 8y ago
            It’s a poorly designed graphic that’s hard to get any real info from.
          • calebegg 8y ago
            https://xkcd.com/1138/ https://xkcd.com/1138/
        • mv4 8y ago
          That chart is a marketing tool, nothing more.
  • dingo_bat 8y ago
    My wife asked me to fix the wifi.
  • mclightning 8y ago
    Yes, I had that exact problem yesterday. I couldnt upload pictures/videos/gifs on whatsapp and instagram. I thought maybe my ISP blocked a port which these services maybe transferring their multimedia on. /Sweden
• wybiral 8y ago
  Ironically https://outage.report/ https://outage.report/ is down too. Edit: it's back now (8:37 PM UTC)