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Facebook broke the internet
- zachallia 15y agoKinda crazy how many sites rely on the Facebook JS SDK for login and other stuff. Definitely still ways to access the API, but if you don't have good fallbacks, you're screwed.
- veyron 15y agoIs there a way to see this content without a facebook account?
- nilved 15y agoAnother reason why Connect shouldn't be your only sign-in option. :)
- artursapek 15y agoTalk about timely, right?
- harryh 15y agoFYI the incident appears to have lasted from approx 6:55pm PST to 8:22pm PST for a total of 87 minutes.
- foxhop 15y agoWhat is more upsetting? Facebook really broke the internet when it put a LOGIN WALL in front of content. Why should I have to login to facebook to view that page? Facebook broke the internet for completely different reasons.
- jdale27 15y agoGee, I didn't notice...
- AznHisoka 15y agoI'm still awaiting the day when the Google CDN version of JQuery goes down.
- zachallia 15y agodoomsday
- Encryptor 15y agowe frequently experience problems downloading scripts from google's CDN, which is why we switched to using local files.
- simonsarris 15y agoIn case others are wondering, its quite easy to make a "fallback" when using CDN scripts. For instance: <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write("<script src='js/libs/jquery-1.6.4.min.js'></script>")</script> Could save all such sites that rely on Google CDN jQuery
- nbpoole 15y agoIt happened almost a year ago! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2398095
- FlemishBeeCycle 15y agoThat's been one of my concerns, the best way to circumvent that issue is to do something like the following: <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script>window.jQuery || document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='/path/to/jquery.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));</script> This way it will fallback to a local copy if Google's goes down. [Edit: simonsarris replied with something similar as I was replying, however, the advantage of using unescape is that you don't get invalid markup warnings]
- notatoad 15y agothis is the second story on the front page right now claiming something "broke the internet". can we stop this sensationalist tripe before it goes any further?
- marshray 15y agoSo I'm getting the picture that Facebook didn't break the internet. Facebook broke a bunch of websites that made the intentional design decision to depend on Facebook for their own availability. Is this right?
- jfornear 15y agoRight, like http://openpoke.org http://openpoke.org stayed up.
- X-Istence 15y agoWhat did Facebook break? My internet seems to have been functioning and still functions perfectly.
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- rokhayakebe 15y agoReally? I've been online all day, and I didn't notice.