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or it could be a malicious attack? I doubt most facebook users even know what HN is.

• shadowgovt 5y ago
  Most Facebook users don't know what HN is, but most HN users have Facebook accounts and will migrate here for the dopamine-inducing refresh clicks (don't let them try to claim otherwise ;) ). If most Facebook users knew what HN was and congregated here when FB was down, the site would be utterly crushed.
• djmips 5y ago
  It doesn't have to be 'most' facebook users.
• rplnt 5y ago
  But all HN users know what Facebook is. And outage of this scale is rare and interesting.
  • tuke 5y ago
    What is Facebook?
    • ed_elliott_asc 5y ago
      The beginning of the end of humanity
      • peakaboo 5y ago
        Its a daycare center for young adults. They grow up eventually.
        • ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
          > Its a daycare center for young adults. Actually, my experience with FB (I have an account, but don't spend much time, there), is that it is packed with grayhairs, like me. I think the younger folks have other venues they frequent.
          • 130e13a 5y ago
            This is definitely the correct take. I fall into the 18-24 demographic and I don't think I've used Facebook at all in the past 3-4 years. Neither does anyone else I know who is my age. This is essentially a reverse network effect: because so few young people are on the platform, few other young people see a reason to use it.
            • tapas73 5y ago
              Also when parents and grandparents join, kids start to leave.
              • aabbcc1241 5y ago
                Interesting relationship
                • ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
                  In the US, at least, this is definitely the case. We like to throw anyone over 40 into the skip (especially in the tech industry). It has caused some issues.
          • jen20 5y ago
            Are we talking the company or the user base here?
            • ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
              Good point. The company does have a fairly young, highly-paid, workforce. I assumed the user base.
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• flutas 5y ago
  > The HN community seems to congregate here for updates causing higher than usual traffic. IMO it's probably a lot of us tech workers watching in awe of what's going on when a big tech company craps itself.
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• gkoberger 5y ago
  No, but most HN users know what Facebook (and WhatsApp and Instagram) are. That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up.
  • blendergeek 5y ago
    > That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up. I have been getting a Hacker News error message more often then usual today. So I don't think it is just DNS.
  • nottorp 5y ago
    DNS lookups are certainly slower for random sites. I just opened an about zero traffic site that i hadn't gone to in a while (so dns not cached). It took a while (10 seconds?) to load the first time. Insta load the second time. This seems to happen for .com but not other TLDs so maybe .com is getting hammered?