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Facebook Down?
- rasso 6y agoBack up on Tenerife
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- purec 6y agoBack up
- abujazar 6y agoYea
- yhoneycomb 6y agoAlso instagram, but not whatsapp
- threatripper 6y agoWhatsapp (the website) now, too. Whatsapp (the messenger) is still transmitting messages.
- kickling 6y agoLove the status page right now. https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ PS. Instagram app/site, whatsapp.com, messenger.com, oculus.com also down, anything else? UPDATE: Everything back up! (Even the status page)
- threatripper 6y agoDo they share infrastructure?
- fastball 6y agoYeah, that's what I was wondering. Strange that there is a SPOF for Facebook/Insta/Whatsapp.
- threatripper 6y agoI had the impression that they are still run like mostly independent companies who only share some data on the backend.
- godelmachine 6y agoMight I ask what’s SPOF?
- fastball 6y agoSingle Point of Failure.
- godelmachine 6y agoThanks
- octo_t 6y agoSingle Point Of Failure
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- DavidPeiffer 6y agoAnecdotally, whatsapp worked for me (message was sent and received successfully) though Facebook gave an error. I was already logged into both services.
- eroded 6y agowhatsapp.com as in the web-based client, which is down.
- aarongolliver 6y agoFinally a status page that updates the moment an issue starts
- alexcnwy 6y agoEven the status page is down
- cure 6y agoSeriously, they host the status page on their own infrastructure? That's ... not smart.
- kickling 6y agoSeems like Giphy is up at least, also facebook owned.
- gh-throw 6y agoEvery company's actual status page (and news feed) is on Twitter, no matter what else they say. I don't know where Twitter hosts their real status page. Probably Facebook. Notably, Facebook hasn't updated theirs, though.
- btown 6y ago> every company's actual status page is on Twitter Clearly you have not experienced the absolute joy of a mission-critical locked-in-vendor B2B SaaS with no status page, no active Twitter presence, and the effective status page being a chat widget that routes to a person overseas who says "oh yeah this is a known outage on our main product please stay tuned" but there's no attempt to proactively make it visible to clients that they know there is an outage. EDIT: fun fact, said vendor lets us use a subdomain we own, so we just route them through a Cloudflare Worker that injects Sentry into their HTML, so that we can monitor errors ourselves and raise tickets with them pretending that we know less than we actually know, because somehow we have a better observability culture than a SaaS vendor that's been around for 20 years. Don't underestimate the difference between vendor.mybrand.com and mybrand.vendor.com on a feature matrix, it may save your sanity.
- spondyl 6y agoDuring the recent Microsoft Azure AD outage, I attempted to use the chat widget. Selecting "Technical support" or "Billing Support" both seemed to return 500 status codes while the "Sales Support" routed somewhere else and connected me to a person, perfectly fine. Presumably the sales team don't use Azure for anything.
- setpatchaddress 6y agofor posterity: <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en" id="facebook"> <head> <title>Error</title> <meta charset="utf-8"/> <meta http-equiv="Cache-Control" content="no-cache"/> <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"/> <style> html, body { color: #333; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Tahoma', 'Verdana', 'Arial', sans-serif; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center;} #header { height: 30px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-top: 10px; text-align: center;} #icon { width: 30px;} .core { margin: auto; padding: 1em 0; text-align: left; width: 904px;} h1 { font-size: 18px;} p { font-size: 13px;} .footer { border-top: 1px solid #ddd; color: #777; float: left; font-size: 11px; padding: 5px 8px 6px 0; width: 904px;} </style> </head> <body> <div id="header"> <a href="//www.facebook.com/"> <img id="icon" src="//static.facebook.com/images/logos/facebook_2x.png"/> </a> </div> <div class="core"> <h1>Sorry, something went wrong.</h1> <p>We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.</p> <p> <a id="back" href="//www.facebook.com/">Go Back</a> </p> <div class="footer"> Facebook © 2021 · <a href="//www.facebook.com/help/">Help</a></div> </div> <script> document.getElementById("back").onclick = function() { if (history.length > 1) { history.back(); return false; } }; </script> </body> </html> And the png does not load.
- unpythonic 6y agoAnd here are the headers: # curl -i https://www.facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error X-Frame-Options: DENY X-XSS-Protection: 0 X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=15552000; preload Set-Cookie: ... Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Vary: Accept-Encoding Pragma: no-cache x-fb-rlafr: 0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" X-FB-Debug: ... Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2021 21:41:49 GMT Priority: u=3,i Transfer-Encoding: chunked Alt-Svc: h3-29=":443"; ma=3600,h3-27=":443"; ma=3600 Connection: keep-alive <!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en" id="facebook"><head><title>Error</title>...
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- css 6y agoIt loads fine for me and shows no downtime or incidents. It even says "Facebook Platform is Healthy"
- kickling 6y agoYup, everything just came back online.
- css 6y agoNow I am unable to connect at all: ~# wget https://developers.facebook.com/status/dashboard/ Connecting to developers.facebook.com (157.240.206.16:443) wget: can't connect to remote host (157.240.206.16): Operation timed out
- chris_wot 6y agoTry posting
- reaperducer 6y agoNot here. Status page still does not load at all.
- liquidify 6y agosame, and can't visit the site at all
- grensley 6y agoI like that it doesn't know that anything went wrong.
- sgt 6y agoSame here, shows: "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can."
- rmason 6y agoI'm seeing the same message
- sgt 6y agoI hope they get FB back up and running within the end of the year, otherwise I may actually start missing it.
- WesolyKubeczek 6y agoI thought they banned me. Retried in an incognito window. Time to enjoy a brief social media pause, thanks to the deity who might have been behind this!
- lucasmullens 6y agoDowndetector is a bit more useful than facebook.com for this: https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/ https://downdetector.com/status/facebook/
- mikaelaast 6y agoTo be a fly on the wall at Facebook HQ right now...
- vdfs 6y agoIt's empty anyway
- lostgame 6y agoWhoa. Wonder what on earth is going on. Can confirm here in Canada, FB and Messenger are both down.
- dboreham 6y agoThere's a page saying something is wrong, which could just be a very efficient summary feature for the site, that is working as intended.
- iandanforth 6y agoRequired clip: https://youtu.be/wZ6ZlRnS40s?t=12 https://youtu.be/wZ6ZlRnS40s?t=12
- menocchio2021 6y agoGold!
- Corrado 6y agoI was thinking of this: https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE
- Chopsah2 6y agoSomeone moved fast.
- seansmccullough 6y agoAnd broke everything?
- dylan604 6y agoCheck the A/C thermostats for hidden RPi devices
- purec 6y agoFacebook, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp sites all down
- posharma 6y agoWhatsapp is also down!
- jeffbee 6y agoInstagram was as well. Seems to have been global across their properties.
- godelmachine 6y agoI hope they publish a postmortem.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoDo they usually?
- godelmachine 6y agoThey don’t but they should. Postmortems are exciting reads and they should have a section for postmortems in their engineering blog.
- rk1987 6y agoDown in Australia as well
- m00dy 6y agoBlack hawk down... hmm not this one. Blue bird down.. not again.. ohh yea facebook is down :)
- atourgates 6y agoOf course the first time in months I've used any of Facebook API services, and they go down mid-implementation.
- dekerta 6y agoMaybe you broke Facebook
- rossdavidh 6y agoSounds like positive correlation to me.
- dylan604 6y agoDo it again. You know, for science. It doesn't count if it isn't repeatable.
- thrusong 6y agoI'm getting two different error pages with the same "Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can" message. One has the older site look, copyright 2020, the other has the newer FB5 look, copyright 2021. The logo is not loading on either page. Part of me wonders if they discovered a big/new hole that led to the data leak, although Instagram being down too suggests maybe there's something happening behind the load balancers?
- grensley 6y agoHow on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?
- notretarded 6y agoAkamai
- chaos_emergent 6y agoProbably an intern doing something dumb.
- mateo411 6y agoThe dumb thing would be giving the intern permission to bring down the whole site.
- vesinisa 6y agoIf an intern can bring down the whole presence of your company online it's not the intern who is dumb.
- jimmy2020 6y agobingo
- abhishekbasu 6y agosome startups would like to disagree
- dividedbyzero 6y agoWhile that's perfectly true, I'm sure a smart and determined intern could cause an astonishing amount of damage in many many orgs. Hopefully not at Facebook though.
- sleepydog 6y agoThe difference is whether or not it was intentional. If someone can bring everything down accidentally, the system is broken. Ditto if they can bring it down intentionally and cover their tracks so no one finds out who did it.
- fooperdupes 6y agoLove to see it. I hate this company.
- simonklitj 6y agoIn Denmark right now, everything down. Was on the phone with someone (in the US) through Messenger without issues. Hung up and tried to send them a message and nothing. Instagram non-functional as well.
- always_left 6y agoAny bets on what happened? Fat Fingers?
- tored 6y agoSnapd autoupdate.
- dividedbyzero 6y agoContainment breach in the AI department, they are currently bombing the site from space, the outages are collateral damage.
- brunojppb 6y agoDown in Austria as well.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- tamaharbor 6y agoPerhaps society can rebuild if this continues.
- challengly 6y agoIf Twitter follows, there might be a chance.
- cjohnson318 6y agoNature is healing.
- nja 6y agoAnyone else get a login request email from Instagram before it went down? I got one, immediately logged in separately and changed my password, logged back in, then shortly after everything went down...
- urnesst 6y agooh no..... YOU BROKE IT!!! D:
- labster 6y agoAnd nothing of value was lost
- jimmy2020 6y agoWhy this outage doesn't happen to twitter
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- fsflover 6y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26743971 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26743971
- rc202402 6y agoI'm guessing this has do something with the recent graph api scraping? Facebook is kinda rude now, they probably adding api bot detection and more phone number verification.
- rgaut 6y agogood for the world :)
- chis 6y agoreal talk can any facebook employees remind me how to get to the IRC chats
- fishnchips 6y agoQuickly, let your FB engineering friends know. If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well and they're none the wiser.
- glitchcrab 6y agoNah, the longer it is down, the better.
- hnarn 6y ago> If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well That is not how monitoring should work. But this is also not how status pages should work.
- arcticbull 6y agoI bet FB Workplace went down too heh [1] [1] https://workplace.com https://workplace.com
- fishnchips 6y agoI'm wondering if they're still using IRC internally.
- redcalx 6y agoHow long before the riots and total societal breakdown?
- yumraj 6y agoThis has to be one of those rare HN instances where a popular site has gone down and people are actually happy.. I can’t think of another such instance..
- swyx 6y agopopular? you must be new here...
- yumraj 6y agoI had put popular in italics. ;) It’s not popular here on HN, but in the rest of the world it surely is.
- rossdavidh 6y agoPopular in the same sense that tobacco is popular.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- behindai 6y agoBerlin. Facebook is down.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- ewenjo 6y agoIt's back!
- lostgame 6y agoDown again.
- rainhacker 6y agoIt's working for me now.
- blhack 6y agoLooks like facebook auth is still working?
- PM_MOI 6y agoI once accidentally knocked out 65K websites during a "fix update". Back then I was mortified. Now, I just feel like that was amateur hour...
- nippur72 6y agodown it Italy as well
- behindai 6y agoHope it's down forever!
- bayesianbot 6y agoEverything up and working again (in Thailand at least), that was fast
- rvz 6y agoOh dear. Mark Zuckerbergs website, photo gallery and his SMS messenger are down. Time to use something that doesn't scan your photo book, address book, and ultimately; everything about YOU.
- chris_wot 6y agoYup, getting oauth errors.
- aerosmile 6y agoLikely not related, but you can imagine that they are quite busy these days with two unplanned projects: 1. Retooling the underpinnings of their ad analytics to survive iOS14. Big advertisers are about to lose a lot of their insights into attribution, partially directly related to the new limitations of iOS14, and partially due to assumptions that Facebook had made about tracking and which are no longer accurate and require a big rewrite. 2. Building an internal Shopify to allow customers to click on ads and complete transactions without ever leaving their app. This already exists but is practically unusable and nowhere close to the polish of Shopify.
- InitialLastName 6y ago3) Frantically planning Zuck's next apology tour after he leaked personal data on half a billion people.
- oneplane 6y agoThis is an Orville reference isn't it. (or at least, it could be and would be extremely related)
- InitialLastName 6y agoNo, I've just picked up the pattern that we only hear from Mark Zuckerberg when he's apologizing for a grievous "oversight" involving user data/abuse* of the Facebook platform. * Also, underhanded use as intended.
- peterburkimsher 6y agoPerhaps some security patches after the data leak? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26691868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26691868
- menocchio2021 6y agoFun fact! Before FB got down, I've seen a disscusion on a group where ppl complaining about the social networks - same usual bs, but still keep using them! I am curious how they will feel now!
- newbie578 6y agoI don't understand how can you allow this to happen? I get one platform being down, but for all of your platforms to be down is not a good sign. I only realized now that I only used Facebook platforms to communicate with my friends, and guess what I cannot reach them by Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp. So I am downloading Signal... I mean come on, you are literally loosing users because of this...
- Rallen89 6y agoCould this have anything to do with the recent data breach?
- towergratis 6y agoNow stay down.
- pelim 6y agogermany/berlin also outage of all fb services using http protocol
- pelim 6y agoand its back
- menocchio2021 6y agoFunny! before FB got down, I was seeing a disscuion on how "bad" fb (and other social networks are) the same usual BS where people complaining but still keep using it! I am curious how they will react now?! How all those "drama queens" will behave now when all their "reputation as moderators" is at risk of dissapereance!
- abujazar 6y agoPerhaps they had to patch some critical vulnerability like the one that exposed 533M personal records and did the right thing by pressing the red button™
- wqsz7xn 6y agoWeird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only 'bad' if you allow that to happen.
- rossdavidh 6y agoThat's like saying that any Turing complete language is equivalent. Some languages encourage you to do things well, others do not. It was totally possible to write code with a lot of "GOTO" statements in it that was well structured, but the actual real-world results with it were bad. It may be possible to use FB in a constructive way, but that doesn't mean we are better off having it.
- ben509 6y agoSocial media is a square wheel. Sure, it sort of goes and if you know no alternative, it might be better than no wheel at all. But there's no good way to use it because it's fundamentally flawed.
- pmlnr 6y agoMy hammer - a tool - doesn't want me to look at more ads. No, FB is not a tool.
- type0 6y agoI wish wholeheartedly that it stays down for a long-long time, long enough to loose it's relevance.
- amelius 6y agoOr long enough to have an experiment which proves the negative externalities of the platform.
- danielam 6y agohttps://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374499/facebook-instagram-outage-down https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/8/22374499/facebook-instagra...
- peterburkimsher 6y agombasic.facebook.com was also down in New Zealand. Thought it was a company firewall issue at first, but checked https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ and confirmed that it's happening to others.
- transreal 6y agoThe website is still down for me, I'm in San Francisco.
- godelmachine 6y agoAnyone knows what might have caused the outage? Someone working in data centers might have a clue.
- tomc1985 6y agoAnd of course Instagram tells me, "No Internet Connection" Like you couldn't connect to your server dude, don't pass the blame on!
- rpastuszak 6y agoQuickly, let’s get shit done!
- booleandilemma 6y agoI can't tell if it's down or not because I block it at the router.
- mullingitover 6y agoWe're obviously going to take this opportunity to dunk of facebook because it's funny, but let's not forget that there are some valuable cultural assets that facebook hosts, with groups such as "Foods with threatening auras" and "Animals in predicaments." I long ago tamed the facebook engagement algorithm by simply unfollowing everything and everyone except these legitimate, useful types of entertainment venues.
- ben509 6y agoDon't forget "The Same Photo of a Gravel Pile Every Day." Almost makes the decline of Western civilization worth it.
- grishka 6y agoIs there a group that saves and reuploads the same photo every day, compressing it into oblivion?
- dividedbyzero 6y agoIf you start one, please share a link.
- grishka 6y agoThere is one in VK (not mine), been going on since 2012: https://vk.com/putineveryday https://vk.com/putineveryday
- evad3r 6y ago"The Same Photo of Jeff Goldblum Every Day"
- evad3r 6y agoI love these appreciation posts so much more than the typical Facebook-hating comments you get on Reddit in contrast. Yes, we know, FB is evil, but it doesn't mean there isn't actually some good stuff on there.
- robomartin 6y agoProductivity around the world likely increased while this lasted.
- eointierney 6y agoYay! Oh noes
- researcher7 6y agoIt was down for sure for me. I am in Los Angeles area. Error occurred message.