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Meta outage
- peterleiser 3y agoFixed. I can login to facebook.com now.
- bratwurst3000 3y agolol how ? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Facebook_outage https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Facebook_outage
- xseparator 3y agoYou know shit's bad when even their status page is down.
- guhcampos 3y agoYeah so much for graceful feature degradation.
- jawns 3y agoJust last week, the Meta paper about their Defcon system landed on HN front page. https://www.micahlerner.com/2023/07/23/defcon-preventing-overload-with-graceful-feature-degradation.html https://www.micahlerner.com/2023/07/23/defcon-preventing-ove...
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- jameswatling 3y agoWe just started having issues with google oauth too....
- ivanmontillam 3y agoYes, I noticed it too[0]. This is going to send a truckload of traffic onto Twitter/X and Telegram. -- [0]: https://twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/1765036872290681089 https://twitter.com/IvanMontillaM/status/1765036872290681089
- joltis 3y agoCan't see the post, and can't login on twitter either, so probably :D
- quartz 3y agoSeems like it. Pretty messy too because it sometimes pushes you to reset your password which then doesn't work so there are going to be a LOT of reset email codes floating out there.
- mfrommil 3y agoAgreed. Probably could be a much better UX for handling a mass outage like this. Graceful, clear error messaging that FB login is down would be better than the current UI. Triggering millions of people to unnecessarily reset their password yet still be unable to login is not a great UX. This seems like one of those cases that's high impact when it does happen, never likely to occur on any given day, but likely to happen at some point; probably just wasn't much focus put on handling a case like this.
- hnfong 3y agoFrom a process/QA perspective I doubt this can ever be properly tested. Sure you can set up a UX to show that the auth server is somehow down and discourage users from trying to login/reset passwords, but when shit hits the fan, you actually never know the precise error that gets thrown to the client because it could be any layer between the backend and the client that failed...
- jonnycomputer 3y agoIt logged me out and told me that my credentials were incorrect; I thought my credentials had been stolen, so I'm kinda personally glad that it seems to be happening to a lot of other people too. I know that's a bit selfish, but :shrug:
- MyFirstSass 3y agoSame, thought all of my friends were getting spammed and i'll look like a "boomer" who got phished. Then i remembered i have a very long and secure password, then immediately panicked about someone having access to my Gmail. The sense of security is more brittle than i thought.
- sandspar 3y agoOn a psychological note, I think the threat detection part of our brain doesn't always notify our conscious thought that it's actively monitoring for threats. I've often noticed that when I'm carefully handling a hot frying pan then my ringing phone is more likely to startle me than usual.
- fuzzfactor 3y agoWhen you've already got one threat on your hands you're less prepared for anything else.
- sandspar 3y agoThat makes sense. I've noticed too that my brain seems to have a threat pre-emption module as well as a threat reaction module. For example, I'll sometimes be walking and texting at the same time, only to stop in my tracks and suddenly realize that there's a hidden stair in front of me.
- 101008 3y agoI panicked the same. Even when I tried to recover my password, it said my email address wasn't associated to any account. I thought I lost it forever
- simlevesque 3y agoIt really is.
- jph 3y agoFacebook is throwing up the sign in page, as if your sign in has failed or someone's logged you out. Instagram and Messenger also seem to be affected.
- TheOtherHobbes 3y agoAnd Threads.
- coffedean 3y agoAnd the Quest headsets.
- jzw8833 3y agoYes, just checked Instagram and it says “Couldn’t refresh feed” and is generally not loading. Messenger has also logged me out.
- subtra3t 3y agoFor some reason I couldn't browse the home page but I could still access my messages (website).
- corobo 3y agoOh good, I thought iOS Firefox was forgetting to load its cookie jar again
- xenospn 3y agoYup. Kicked me out and won’t let me back in.
- greatquux 3y agoThis will be great for productivity!
- cm2187 3y agoI thought the average facebook user was of retirement age.
- epcoa 3y agoInstagram is also affected.
- graemep 3y agoNot sure about globally, but middle aged, 45 - 65, slightly more women. I would bet those who are not working in full time jobs are a lot more active though.
- subtra3t 3y agoIn a lot of developing countries, Facebook is often the only app that a significant part of the population uses. And that includes young adults as well.
- aranw 3y agoInstagram has stopped working for me and I've also noticed other sites having issues like YouTube?
- MyFirstSass 3y agoYes both Youtube and Instagram seems to be down too for me.
- jzw8833 3y agoInstagram is down but Youtube seems to be fine for me
- MyFirstSass 3y agoYoutube seems to be about 1/3 i get "Something went wrong" error on the frontpage, so only sporadic.
- MarcellusDrum 3y agoMaybe because of the sudden increase of traffic?
- zalyh 3y agoYouTube seems fine
- acquacow 3y agoYup, got logged out of everything about 25min ago.
- jmiller1138 3y agoyeah, randomly logged me out and now my pw doesn't work. The reset password options don't seem to be connecting.
- rvz 3y agoOh dear. Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads are all down. and its time to contact the CEO of Meta to bring them all back up. At least Twitter / X is still up, so time to complain about it there.
- maerF0x0 3y ago+1 i was freaking out i got hacked cause I tend to overreact like that xD
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- ink_13 3y agoMeta doesn't do that. For one thing, "Patch Tuesday" is a Windows thing, and 0% of production traffic is served from Windows there. For another, they are constantly and always redeploying. More likely that someone bungled a deploy of user auth. No doubt they are rolling back as we speak.
- EarthLaunch 3y agoI tried to do a SMS verify when I couldn't login, and the text never came. That service must be overloaded. That's when I realized it was an outage. Hundreds of thousands (millions?) must be doing that. Also, going to /r/facebook doesn't load, heh, there must be per-subreddit load issues?
- simne 3y agoGreetings from Ukraine. And I confirm. First I sought, it is because some war issue in Ukraine (we are at war if somebody don't know), or somebody hacked me, but decided to check HN and seen this thread. God bless HN and America!
- kerirenee21 3y agoPrayers for Ukraine!
- johncalvinyoung 3y agoNote that this status page is... less than helpful in the face of an obvious outage.
- saturn5k 3y agoSession timed out. I'm in Macedonia. In the quick login menu there was another person with name and profile photo beside my name and profile photo. It seems the girl was from my country, don't know her. I thought I was hacked. This is messed up. IG is not working as well. Feeds, profiles, messages are all blank.
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- dewmal 3y agoI'm from Sri Lanka. It's not working here; I was suddenly logged out from all devices.
- throwaway3563 3y agoIn USA, same story here. Logged out and cannot log in.
- OskarS 3y agoSo lovely that the status page indicates that everything is fine except the WhatsApp Business API!
- Ragnarokkk 3y agoI'm in France and same for me and my friends
- miyuru 3y agoSri Lankans cannot live without FB and its the afternoon here.
- mdrzn 3y agoFB logs you out and claims "Wrong password" if you try to login. IG just doesn't load new posts or comments, but doesn't log me out.
- igorguerrero 3y agoYet another status board that's a lie... great.
- mikeytown2 3y agoDon't panic, you didn't get hacked
- neogodless 3y agohttps://metastatus.com/ https://metastatus.com/ They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!)
- acquacow 3y agoThat hasn't even been updated since Mar 1... Edit, oh, now it has today's date, but still doesn't reflect reality.
- neogodless 3y agoFor me, the home page and Messenger Platform have date/time stamps like > Updated Mar 5 2024 10:33 AM EST and > Updated Mar 5 2024 10:37 AM EST
- maerF0x0 3y ago25% down, but 100% Down for me is the same as 100% down.
- neogodless 3y agoI'd say "down for lots of people" is the same as "having widespread issues." If it was just a single person, then it would be annoying but I wouldn't assume it's a system problem. My point was just that, of course, the status page is not reflecting reality.
- darkwater 3y agoThere are lies, damned lies and... status pages. According to them Whatsapp Business on premises solutions has issues since end of February.. But also looks like that WAB is the only product with API issues according to the status page.
- shrikant 3y ago> They are not down. (They just don't work for lots of people!) Seems about par for the course for big tech these days. There's currently an issue affecting the Google Ads API causing timeouts when sending data to it, but the Google Ads Status Summary page shows nothing [0]. However, there's an incident detail page showing some vague hand-wavy information about incidents [1], which appears to be unreachable from anywhere on the Summary page. Gah. [0] https://ads.google.com/status/ https://ads.google.com/status/ [1] https://ads.google.com/status/publisher/incidents/gNG1ppoY3yP2aUuPvc5c https://ads.google.com/status/publisher/incidents/gNG1ppoY3y... p.s.: The actual incident details URLs are available in the "RSS feed" link very transiently and tend to disappear -- the feed, which incidentally for fun reasons, is actually an Atom feed.
- zhan_eg 3y agoIt looks like Meta acknowledged a problem on their status page [0] [0] https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api https://metastatus.com/whatsapp-business-api at "5:32 PM GMT+2"
- max_hammer 3y agoFacebook login is also not working but status page is not updated. https://metastatus.com/facebook-login https://metastatus.com/facebook-login Platform Status : No known issues Mar 5 2024 4:38 PM GMT+1 The service is up and running with no known issues.
- Crosseye_Jack 3y agoThey can't log in to update the status page about facebook login because they use facebook login for auth on the status page! Joking aside, I wouldn't be surprised if this was the case, because during their last major outage (something related to DNS iirc) they were having issues pushing fixes because they couldn't login because their DNS was down. EDIT: seems like the status page was recently updated.
- whizzter 3y agoiirc they had to have a guy with a hatchet open the server cabinet because their login cards were tied to the failed infrastructure.
- basch 3y agoWhat would take Google and Facebook auth down at the same time? Coordinated 0day patch?
- toomuchtodo 3y ago[Edit: Misread the comment, mea culpa]
- basch 3y agoFor both companies? Or is the report of Google auth being down only tied to meta logins, and a misdiagnosis?
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- _zoltan_ 3y agoGoogle logged me out of an account and I had trouble logging back in. downdetector also reports Google having issues and friends also had trouble with both.
- hnfong 3y agoFWIW for me Google seems relatively stable, but I tried logging into a lesser used gmail account on a lesser used browser, successfully logged in for like 10 seconds, then got logged out. It's very spooky when supposedly the two companies who probably aren't sharing infrastructure seem to go down at the same time...
- kerirenee21 3y agoAgreed! It is odd…
- nathanaldensr 3y agoI had immediately started the account hijack process which, funnily enough, is also down. I was kicked off Messenger and Facebook and then my password was rejected by the login page. This whole flow made it seem like an account takeover and not an authentication outage. Bad UX, Meta. Bad!
- 101008 3y agoWhat's the account hijack process btw?
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- MyFirstSass 3y agoAnyone have a good guesstimate of how much money is "lost" when Youtube/Facebook/Instagram/Whatsapp (more?) are down each minute?
- thehappypm 3y agoNaively, divide ad revenue by time to get a dollars-per-time. But thats naive because ad serving isn’t totally sold out so they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window. If the outage is short, then the impact is small. But some markets are totally sold out and there’s no making up for lost impressions.
- MarcellusDrum 3y agoThis is something I've thought about a while back. Like Facebook probably has a "maximum number of ads shown to users per post" value. So theoretically, they have a ceiling for how many ads can be bought in a specific time frame before having to increase the ceiling/find new users. Do they share data about this?
- post-it 3y ago> before having to increase the ceiling/find new users. Or raise the prices of ads.
- bananapub 3y ago> they can make up for it by increasing the density of ads in the next time window no need to do that, for google search, people will come back later to make the search
- thehappypm 3y agoYes, but, they’ll need to serve X ads in a smaller amount of time
- bmau5 3y agoThey also do not refund spend during this time typically so wouldn't be a 1:1
- FinNerd 3y agoInstagram is also down
- Rudraksh_1514 3y agoYes. The app does start (unlike Facebook) but then it's "Couldn't refresh feed" and nothing visible on the explore page.
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- darnfish 3y agoInstagram wasn't working for me in New England, USA.
- dadver 3y agoSweden, logged out from all devices, Google authentication to reset password results in error. Authorization codes sent via SMS to reset passwords seems non-responsive. Authorization codes to reset password sent by e-mail works, but setting passwords results in set password page two times in a row and after second try "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again."
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- RomanPushkin 3y agoSan Francisco, Instagram, Facebook both not working
- mh- 3y agoI don't think SF not working is related to this outage, though.
- fddrdplktrew 3y agoWhy do you say that? It could be exactly why Facebook is not working.
- magixx 3y agoSame issue on the East Coast in the US. All devices were logged out afaict.
- ironmagma 3y agoNeither is the only Facebook status page I found, interestingly. https://metastatus.com/ https://metastatus.com/ At least, it shows everything green (except for WhatsApp Business API).
- dimillian 3y agoBeing logged out of every app is so insane. No automatic recovery from that. Big fuckup.
- rightbyte 3y agoI guess there are alot of unsuspecting victims being logged in as dorment users and tracked. A lot of people would probably also don't bother log back in, if there will be a password prompt?
- egorfine 3y agoPoland and Ukraine: all down.
- jordemort 3y agoAlso got logged out an all devices, and can't get logged back in, or successfully complete a password reset. In the US. Glad it's not just me...
- aeolis_mons 3y agoYep, I’m logged out and can neither log in nor reset. Mountain west, USA.
- twoquestions 3y agoThank you for posting, I'm glad you can generally find service status better here than status pages that never show downtime.
- fforflo 3y agoGoogle and Meta auth, both down at the same time? Oooh. Conspiracy theories (or not) incoming...
- coobird 3y agoSame situation here in Japan -- all devices logged out of Facebook and cannot log back in.
- rvz 3y agoNot just Facebook, all of Meta (Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp) is taking a breaks. The Metaverse is temporarily closed for now. Lets see where the majority of the discussion migrates to. (Twitter / X)
- Rudraksh_1514 3y agoWhatsApp seems to be working here in India.
- intelkishan 3y agoTrue it's also working for me
- graemep 3y agoand in the UK
- dingnuts 3y agoreal discussion happens in private spaces. everything on Twitter/Facebook/etc is performative. including my comment.
- palad1n 3y agoSeoul Korea and can confirm. “Logged out.”
- ykonstant 3y agoAnd rather than an indication that it is not working, I was just told to login again; since the attempts were unsuccessful, I was led to reset my password. Now I have no clue if the password has been reset properly or an old one is used, or login with google is used, or if I will continue to be logged out after they fix stuff. If your service is down, please say "my service is down".
- getlawgdon 3y agoI have exactly this issue. Been frantically jumping around this morning dealing with perceived security issues and have no idea where my many FB resets led to.
- jeltz 3y agoYeah, same thing happened to me so will likely need to reset my password again once Facebook is up again.
- CivBase 3y agoLogging everyone out across all platforms and telling them to just try logging back in sounds like an excellent way to DDOS yourself. This should be a fun postmortem.
- bbarn 3y agoYeah, and they've dug themselves a hole with having near permanent login persistence. I can't remember the last time on a computer I use frequently that I've had to log in.
- the42thdoctor 3y agoThat was my cue to check hacker news
- dimask 3y agoMe too, after the first couple of "is it down" websites I tried failed to load. HN never fails us when a big website is down. I was also almost ready to reset my password.
- nonfamous 3y agoThreads isn’t working either.
- ergonaught 3y agoThankfully there are no known issues.
- SSLy 3y agothreads.net seem down too.
- world2vec 3y agoUK: Instagram iOS app not working.
- alephnan 3y agoIf there was an AI armageddon, this would be how it starts
- alex_young 3y ago> Facebook is not working That’s very meta.
- aaomidi 3y agoThis might be the end of Facebook if it lasts long enough. Invalidating people’s sessions on apps? That’s a HUGE cost. There’s a huge % of users that won’t be able to get back in.
- AlfredBarnes 3y agoI hope so.
- dddddaviddddd 3y agoI've known several people who, when they got signed out, couldn't remember their password and access their email, and so made a new account. I'm sure Facebook will see a spike of this.
- jiminymcmoogley 3y agoyeah i'm hoping it was just an auth server outage and browser sessions werent invalidated because this basically described my situation, but i wont have access to the only device i own that still (hopefully) has a an active login session until the weekend to find out
- 00deadbeef 3y agoIt might not have actually invalidated the session
- aaomidi 3y agoIt does on the app. Logs you out.
- ur-whale 3y agoLooks like their entire auth service is completely borked. [EDIT] : and if it's a hack, by now half of the world has typed in their password to re-identify ... scary.
- qaq 3y agoI thought someone hacked my account ...
- suyash 3y agoOfficial page to check status: https://metastatus.com https://metastatus.com
- mips_r4300i 3y agoStatus page is down for me now too
- basch 3y agoWhat would take Google and Facebook auth down at the same time? Coordinated 0day patch? Or is the report of Google auth being down actually tied only to meta logins?
- jawns 3y agoThat's my best guess. And for them to log out every user in the world makes me incredibly curious about what would have happened if they'd chosen a different course.
- basch 3y agoI think I’ve experienced 2 or 3 global session resets on fb in my life. Usually followed by some kind of reason they had to protect everyone. This probably isn’t great, hopefully a precaution not an active exploit.
- drewg123 3y agoI was wondering if Google was just melting down under a tidal wave of password reset emails from FB/IG.. My gmail seems to be working fine, both personal and work.
- neogodless 3y agoSee https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604590 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39604590 (5 minutes earlier) Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp outage (downdetector.com)
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- MandieD 3y agoSpecial bonus: today is Super Tuesday, which is when a large number of US states have their primary elections.
- bbarn 3y agoI've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy. What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
- ak_111 3y agoActually I can see this morphing into a Russia interference conspiracy. If the main social media used by liberals goes down, while the one used by Trump (forgot what it's called) stays up, surely that is an advantage for him?
- BaldricksGhost 3y agoThere are probably more MAGA's on Facebook platforms than TFG's Truth Social. Either way it's going to start a few conspiracy theories.
- laughablecargo 3y agoIn an election between the two parties I think that would be a very likely narrative but in this case it's the primaries. And (as others have mentioned) neither primary has really had anything resembling a competition at this point so it's more or less irrelevant to the result (most likely).
- ak_111 3y agoconspiracy theory get more imaginative. For example, you can then pose the conspiracy that the fact it was Russian interference conspiracy was a conspiracy to justify more social media policing during the real election.
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- issafram 3y agoSeems like somehow YouTube is also affected? I'm starting to think that this is an attack of sorts and not Meta specific
- issafram 3y agoGoogle Play Store also affected
- beejiu 3y agoGiven Facebook is like 10% of total Internet bandwidth, I'm curious what happens when all that traffic suddenly gets "redirected" elsewhere by people going to other sites and platforms. Could YouTube cope with a sudden 10% uptick in streams for example? Edit: YouTube seems now to be defaulting to a lower bitrate, leading me to guess it's a demand issue.
- ykonstant 3y agoThat seems to be the actual case. Most of the "usual web" is struggling. Even HN is struggling for me.
- razius 3y ago[dead]
- bigwheeler 3y agoI was logged in on mac, and the page refreshed and logged me out without any interaction from me, while I was reading a post. Then I went to check on my phone and I got the "We had a problem with the page you tried to reach." dialog box.
- julianeon 3y agoFacebook is not working, but you wouldn't know it from this page, which says everything is working.
- intelkishan 3y agoIt's the same for me in India
- yakshaving_jgt 3y agoI guess we all better do some work today then.
- usrusr 3y agoFor me it happened when my long-dormant messenger lighted up (for a perfectly valid reason, no surprise there) and made me go through those unbundling options presumably mandated by EU. Certainly a coincidence, but it does irrationally strengthen that satisfying feeling I get whenever I see the ad giant stumble.
- indigodaddy 3y agoDoes FB still have that corporate chat/slack competitor offering? Personally I’m glad for the FB “forced” break, but may not be great for those users..
- DyingAdonis 3y agoSounds like they messed up rotating their encryption key.
- ivraatiems 3y agoI was logged out of all devices and told my password was incorrect. It looks identical to a hijacked account attack and was quite scary until I started seeing similar stories from others.
- amingilani 3y agoGoogle’s oauth logins are timing out too.
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- neogodless 3y agoStatus has just updated (as of 10:49 AM ET) to show that there are outages.
- TrackerFF 3y agoThe first thing I did was to reset me password(s), and wonder if my devices had been compromised.
- daemonologist 3y agoIt seems to not just be Meta - sites like Downdetector[0] are showing a spike in reported issues from AWS, Google services, and X/Twitter as well. I noticed issues with Google myself. [0] https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- jcwayne 3y agoThe sparklines on Downdetector's homepage can't be compared to each other. Spikes that look similar can actually have a difference of several orders of magnitude. Only meta's services have truly large spikes.
- daemonologist 3y agoThat's true and an excellent point. I commented about the reported issues elsewhere mainly because I experienced them myself (google.com and drive.google.com not loading or being extremely slow to load content). That could be entirely sympathetic though - people having issues with Meta flooding other services and briefly overwhelming them.
- uticus 3y agowhat are stats for Facebook uptime? i can't remember last time large parts of it went down like this.
- jeltz 3y agoProbably not very good. They had a major outage in 2021 too. And from people I know who work at Meta I am not surprised at all. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709575/facebook-outage-instagram-whatsapp https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/4/22709575/facebook-outage-...
- MiddleEndian 3y agoDiscord also seems to be down for me
- kortex 3y agoDiscord loaded from scratch for me, but it took a much longer time than I usually remember for the feed to come up.
- MiddleEndian 3y agoI've given it a lot of time, no luck. It displays: ISSUE STARTING SESSIONS We are investigating the issue
- trashtestcrash 3y agoand I thought I was having a bad day
- giancarlostoro 3y agoThis means IG is also down. Which means probably a network tier screw up yet again. Idk why they design a monolith network that basically can put out all their infrastructure.
- jeltz 3y agoDoes not look like a network issue, my guess is that they fucked up something major with their auth server when deploying a change related to the EU Digital Markets Act.
- giancarlostoro 3y agoTheres other apps that went down including Discord how is that not a network issue?
- Euphorbium 3y agoThey recently started demanding that I log in on a phone app, to make some choice to use messenger on ipad. That is pretty much the end of messenger for me.
- uticus 3y agome: wonder if there's a problem? i'll find a status site me 2 seconds later: nah, i'll check HN me 5 seconds later: ahh, there it is
- dewmal 3y agoIts work all the time
- sircastor 3y agoI assumed it was a "me" issue. They really ought to put something on the login page. Then I found out my wife had been logged out too. I started to go through the password reset process and that failed as well. Then I got here.
- _zoltan_ 3y agonot only Facebook, Google loggeed me out as well, and had trouble logging back in. downdetector shows nicely that almost everything had a hickup. what are the chances of this?
- nyolfen 3y agomany independent major services are having significant spikes https://downdetector.com/ https://downdetector.com/
- MIlBianco 3y agoI thought I got hacked and tried to retrieve my password. Got a weird email with the same code every time from facebook ail.com
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- captainbland 3y agoThe domain reads a lot like "metastasis" which fits quite well with the social media landscape and oodles of terrible "suggested" content on Facebook in general
- wewu 3y agologged out of fb, i sta, and msgr in NY
- HK4ur 3y agoI had just added Google Authenticator as a two factor ligon for both Instagram and FB not ten min before it happened so I thought it was something got messed up when setting that up. I got a msg on FB saying session expired and tried to log back on with Unexpected error. Then thought I was hacked until my husband confirmed same on his account.
- wewu 3y agologged out of fb, insta, and msgr in NY
- kossTKR 3y agoWhat are the chances this is GPT-5 that has escaped and gone rogue? Jest aside, i wonder when/if stuff like that will actually happen.
- fishnchips 3y agoNegligible. It would have gone after Twitter first.
- prepend 3y agoComically twitter seems to be working fine and is where I was able to find confirmation that it wasn’t just me.
- fishnchips 3y agoYeah, exactly, so it must still be a good old human mistake, not Skynet.
- Woshiwuja 3y agoYou mean X right?
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- causal 3y agoClearly the work of Llama 3
- 1970-01-01 3y agoWhich one this time - BGP or DNS? Either way, global GDP should be up :)
- ototot 3y agoGiven the range. Doesn't look like DNS
- marcosdumay 3y agoSo... No way it could be DNS?
- chrismarlow9 3y agoNarrator: it was DNS
- kordlessagain 3y agoMy sense is that it's BGP.
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- gene31337 3y agoI'm betting memory.
- Althuns 3y agoEvery outage there is a discussion about how these status pages are failing to adequately notify and describe the problem. Is there anyone out there doing it right?
- HK4urCAN 3y agoI had just added Google Authenticator as a two factor logon for both Instagram and FB not ten min before it happened so I thought it was something got messed up when setting that up. I got a msg on FB saying session expired and tried to log back on with Unexpected error. Then thought I was hacked until my husband confirmed same on his account.
- davisr 3y agoThere isn't a single part of my life that is affected by this. Good riddance; Facebook is a psychological cancer.
- TedHartDavis 3y agoThe lines on DownDetector are fun.
- askonomm 3y agoEstonia: all down
- wenbin 3y agoGoogle login seems to be slow just now for 2 of our websites
- synergy20 3y agoyes it's all broken now, so I can take a short break here :)
- notsahil 3y agoDiscord is having issues too! https://discordstatus.com/ https://discordstatus.com/
- montekristooGDB 3y ago+
- wddkcs 3y agoCould this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up.
- chimeracoder 3y ago> Could this be related to Google's log in page change? Seemed cosmetic only, but funny timing that Google's page update happens the same time all these log in issues pop up. That rollout is staggered over time, so not all users receive it at the same time. It's unlikely to be related.
- shombaboor 3y agoThey've been previewing that change for weeks, and I wondered: why do they need to change it at all? Is it some product manager justifying his need to exist?
- alwa 3y agoBased on their hype banners, I was ready for a major overhaul, too. Or at least something obviously different about the login flow. It sure looks like somebody just clicked the left-align button and spit-shined the typeface a tiny bit. Which, I guess, is the best possible redesign: one that freshens up without rocking the boat.
- Shrezzing 3y agoI think the downtime associated with other services could just be people choosing alternative sites for their social media time. Facebook + Insta makes up a huge share of the social media market, and when they go offline, it'd be natural for their competitors to receive large sudden upticks in trafic they're not immediately prepared for on a Tuesday morning.
- BaldricksGhost 3y agoThreads is down too. Given its integration with Instagram that's not exactly surprising though.
- monsieurgaufre 3y agoAlso can't logged into my openAI account. Not saying is related, but timing is weird.
- r4nd0m_jump 3y agoif you are logging in with facebook account that might be the reason
- monsieurgaufre 3y agoIndeed if it was the case. But i always create an account with my email for this kind of situation.
- wolfpanke 3y agoif you try to reset your password you will receive each time the same CODE number for auth....
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- mips_r4300i 3y agoUSA, Instagram app broke about 5 minutes ago.
- vincnetas 3y agoevery one panicked that they got hacked. i got a slim hope that i also got hacked and that i will not bother to recover my account and just roll without FB :) im too week to quit my self.
- revscat 3y agoMaybe post your password to Twitter or something. Let it escape into the wild, where it can be observed in its natural state.
- Liquidor 3y agoI know your intention is to help, but please don't share your FB password (if that wasn't obvious already lol). Letting randoms log into your FB account will just have massive consequences with your friends and family thinking it's you talking to them etc.
- revscat 3y agotZ7TuQ)cznNhnimgJVwUuys(uy
- noSyncCloud 3y agoNice pw bro, mind if I use it? Looks pretty secure
- noman-land 3y agoSend me your password and I'll log in and change it to nonsense. Get out of that heck hole.
- avgDev 3y agoI tried logging in, I couldn't and was like "nice, I guess I want to have to look at garbage today". I really would like a social network just for friends without all the garbage bloat.
- dv_dt 3y agoWell, I've been spitballing 1-3 years for effects of layoffs to affect company performance, so this timeframe is about right
- lazide 3y agoYup. That it’s related to the elections is also predictable, due to stress. Made worse in big corp due to affirmative action + lack of enough qualified candidates meeting diversity criteria. Which is inevitable when you have coarse criteria applied to such a large industry this way so quickly, as it takes decades for anyone to be qualified for the senior roles, and many years for junior/mid level, even if there were no pipeline issues, which there are. And unqualified folks in leadership, and mid level == stupid mistakes. And, with the DOL rules, the company can’t even pay people differently, so no bueno even giving the high performers keeping things afloat better bonuses - unless they happen to meet the diversity criteria and it makes the stats look good. Which it’s already hard enough to do properly when there is only one dimension, and impossible when there are 2-3. so the bigger the company, the faster it has to cut its own throat.
- binaryblitz 3y agoBlaming an outage on DEI... Man that's a new one for me. Could you let us know where you work? I want to make sure I never apply there.
- lazide 3y agoBwahaha, just wait until you see the shrapnel flying over the next year. You don’t think the steady erosion in system reliability and ever increasing outages is unrelated to these pressures do you? I’ve seen the sausage being made at the middle manager level in big corp for a long time. It’s never any one person/hiring decision, but the pattern and it’s impact has been obvious (and getting unavoidable) for a long time. That no one seems to want to talk about the actual issues, but doing character assassination and black listing (like this comment) is part and parcel of the problem.
- tapland 3y agoShortly before I received password recovery codes to my email, from all facebook accounts I have. My email requires 2FA, as does my facebook account, but when I went there and clicked "forgot password" there was an unknown email address added to my account. That shouldn't be possible.
- yreg 3y agoYour mouse click broke it.
- sarahmike 3y ago[dead]
- montekristooGDB 3y agoDiscord too ?
- sarahmike 3y ago[dead]
- neogodless 3y agohttps://metastatus.com/ https://metastatus.com/ seems to be suffering a hug of death now...
- perfectritone 3y agoIt really should be a static page.
- slig 3y agoBuilt on React, though.
- Capricorn2481 3y agoReact can be used fine for static pages. That's orthogonal.
- pests 3y agoReact does have server components which are completely rendered server side, ala PHP or similar. Even SSG/pre-rendering support.
- stefandesu 3y agoSuch irony...
- Galacta7 3y agoIt could save others from clicking on downed sites, but not itself.
- hiccuphippo 3y agoTangent to this but I saw a link to metastatus last week and thought it would be a status page for other services' status pages. This makes it sound like a useful thing now, too bad the name is taken.
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- suyash 3y agoOfficial page to check status: https://metastatus.com https://metastatus.com
- suyash 3y agoIt would have been smarter if they hosted this on a separate reliable server altogether.
- pwenzel 3y agoMight as well rename it from Meta Status to Metastasis.
- Ambroos 3y agoIt's on AWS, but likely just has issues with provisioned capacity now that it's actually being hammered. Meta has a small collection of tools on AWS to deal with large SEV0 events like these. Another one of them is a basic communication tool that does not use Meta's own servers for anything (including auth), a super basic version of the internal SEV tool.
- miyuru 3y agoX-Amz-Apigw-Id: X-Amzn-Errortype: TooManyRequestsException X-Amzn-Requestid: Looks like the endpoints are on aws lambda and its getting rate limited.
- Woshiwuja 3y agoThats down too. lmao
- wolfpanke 3y agoIF you try to recover your password you will receive the exact auth code each time that you request it.
- meindnoch 3y agoThis should be considered an act of war.
- kerirenee21 3y agoWhat do you mean by this? I find all of this very odd. Everything that’s been happening.
- meindnoch 3y agoYou're witnessing the greatest attack on Internet infrastructure in history. Amphibious assault on Taiwan imminent.
- kerirenee21 3y agoWhy do you think they do this to our social medias and our phones? To have control? To track? To shut us down so we have nothing? Like what is your thoughts on what they are trying to do? As in there plans or what are they trying to accomplish
- meindnoch 3y agoConfuse your enemy. Disrupting civil communication before large scale maneuvers is part of the modern doctrine.
- coldcode 3y agoIt appears to be more than Meta, lots of things are showing a spike in reports, including AWS.
- rightbyte 3y agoThat might be the FB traffic instead going to the content producers? I mean half the internet users need to go somewhere else if they want procrastination.
- MPSimmons 3y agoMy password didn't work, and I was like, "oh man, it's finally happened - I've clicked on the wrong link somewhere and my account has been owned". Whew.
- meindnoch 3y agoMeta stock in freefall. Going short at 20x leverage.
- getlawgdon 3y agoCan't tell if serious, but I've seen worse trades. Wouldn't call this a freefall yet: https://imgur.com/a/0UN3HZa https://imgur.com/a/0UN3HZa
- robjan 3y agoRisky move. The slight drop (and subsequent recovery) today is unlikely related to this outage in any way.
- greenie_beans 3y agoOH MY GOD WHAT IS THE WORLD GONNA DO!!!!!?????
- nathanaldensr 3y agoTouch grass. xD
- albatros1313 3y agoI love how no one here is talking about the "coincidental" timing that this is happening on Super Tuesday. Carry on, nothing to see here.
- binaryblitz 3y agoIf this was 2016, I'd think there could be a possibility. Given that the candidates for the election are almost 100% a foregone conclusion at this point, what purpose would it serve?
- rantee 3y agoFueling clickbait conspiracy theories is one probable outcome that comes to mind. For example, even a winning candidate may claim that a "woke" employee sabotaged the site in an effort to subvert the will of the people to have free and open discourse, they won despite the media deck stacked against them, etc.
- cjohnson318 3y agoWe've seen continuous layoffs for the past year or so, and the stability of everything is wonky now. Yesterday I had trouble with LinkedIn, last week it was Coinbase, a month or so ago Gmail was hanging. I don't think it's because of Super Tuesday.
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- nathanaldensr 3y agoI have yet to see one plausible reason for why this would affect primary voting in any way. Voting is done at the local level on local hardware; we don't vote on Facebook.
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- angst_ridden 3y agoI’m seeing a lot of non-FB services down too. Mostly AWS-based, but not all. My original conspiracy thoughts (this being Super Tuesday in the US) are giving away to thinking it’s some low level routing issue.
- albatros1313 3y agoIt's definitely related to Super Tuesday. Why kill 2 birds with one stone when you can kill 10?
- granger0702 3y agoSame here in Vietnam, nothin working at all
- Codegres 3y agoYup. Google OAuth and Facebook, Instagram all are down. I think its a case of bad deployment by Google. They recently introduced new OAuth flow. Might be related. No idea how long it will take to fix it.
- granger0702 3y agosame here in Vietnam, I can't contact my colleagues now
- Waterluvian 3y agoI'm having one heck of a time getting into Discord or getting YouTube to show videos. Anyone else experiencing issues outside of the Meta realm?
- NKosmatos 3y agoObligatory DNS joke :-) It's not the DNS, It can't be the DNS, It might be the DNS, It's the DNS
- DueDilligence 3y ago[dead]
- Thaxll 3y agoSRE now have real work to do.
- wly_cdgr 3y agoI've never seen an outage this bad and I've been on Facebook since the oughts.
- Ambroos 3y agoThe 2021 outage was worse, it completely killed the network access to FB data centers for hours, and even led to issues with FB employees accessing offices (since the badge readers were also offline). It was so bad it got it's own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Facebook_outage
- wly_cdgr 3y agoI don't remember that one - must have been on a hiking trip. This one might turn out to be worse yet! Hopefully not.
- unavida 3y agomy heart rate was pounding when I couldn't login and couldn't reset my password just now. Seeing this HN post made me come back down to normal. I'm now going to move away from FB, Google, and all other major tech companies I rely on.
- jeromegv 3y agoMastodon is up!
- marcosdumay 3y agoJust checked again to be sure, even lemmy.world is up.
- faceloss 3y ago[dead]
- kerirenee21 3y agoAnyone else find this shit weird? First Nation wide outages with all phone carriers, mainly AT&T and Verizon and T-Mobile… massive outage… and then now Facebook and instagram. Then banks were having outages and pharmacies.. and when the phone outages accrued mine was working fine and my fiancés was not. I just find all this weird… feel like there’s more to it!
- faceloss 3y ago[dead]
- joemanaco 3y agoHas a meta developer used Chat GPT again?
- DeusExMachina 3y agoLooking at the Downdetector home page [1], it looks like many more services are having outages, not just the ones owned by Meta, including: - Google - YouTube - Google Play - T-Mobile - X (Twitter) - Discord - TikTok - Pokemon Go - Snapchat It looks like they all have the same failure point. [1] https://downdetector.com https://downdetector.com
- andtheboat 3y agoiirc these all use GCP which would make sense for them all to be disrupted at the same time. I wouldn't have thought Meta was GCP reliant though?
- Yiin 3y agoall of them are using oauth, likely auth provider issue?
- bburnett44 3y agoThere’s no way fb uses gcp
- ajross 3y agoMost of those seem OK for me now, and DD agrees. This seems to have been a temporary blip for all of them, possibly some kind of service switchover/fallback "not entirely unrelated" to the Meta outage? Edit: actually a more attractive theory, given the very short timelines and near simultaneity of all those failures, is that downdetector itself had a failure, possibly a Meta-dependence, that they noticed and corrected quickly.
- johntiger1 3y agoIronically, Meta employees are also affected by this
- jeltz 3y agoJust like last time they had an outage.
- lenerdenator 3y agoGonna have my Angle Grinder controller ready for the new Sysadmin Simulator release
- ototot 3y agoThey layoff too many ppl.
- C4RN1 3y agoWay to go meta team...
- fmsf 3y agoI was considering buying the Quest 3 this morning, this outage is timely. The fact that I can't use my perfectly working headset to play an offline game because facebook is down, makes me wonder if I should go for a different provider. Any recommendations? Excluding apple vision pro since it is too expensive.
- bloaf 3y agoI think the current buzz in the VR space is the "Bigscreen Beyond" which eschews all of the nice-to-haves in order to make the headset as light as possible, and the result is surprisingly compelling.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoIt looks compelling for high-end PC gaming VR enthusiasts, but if GP is more of a mainstream consumer it probably won't make sense for them. At least from what I've read, there's a bunch of downsides for regular consumers: very expensive ($1000) -- SUPER expensive if you bundle in controllers and tracking points (~$1600), needs external tracking, wired instead of wireless, no built-in audio, can effectively only be used by one person (because each one is built custom to your face), and of course it's not a standalone headset, it has to be hooked up to a gaming PC.
- xp84 3y agoGreat news: Thanks to Apple, $1600 is now a budget super-economy VR headset! Courage.
- practice9 3y agoUnless it's a recent change, it works perfectly fine offline (wifi turned off). As for alternatives, there is Pico, but Quest 3 may be superior in games selection. Or go wired which is of course less portable
- fmsf 3y agoIn my case I was doing iRacing with a cable, it requires the Oculus app to run for the link to work. Which in turn needs the login to be active.
- wojciem 3y agoLlama3 become sentient
- rany_ 3y agoThe status page seems down for me as well. I just get a never-ending loading screen.
- dudeinhawaii 3y agoIf you have an adblocker, try disabling that. The page fails to load with ublock Origin running.
- XCSme 3y agoWhat could affect so many different services? Some DNS server? Clould provider like AWS?
- jgehrcke 3y agoUnderwater cables seemingly got attacked; the Red Sea situation is likely related: https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-houthi-rebels-attacks-b53051f61a41bd6b357860bbf0b0860a https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou...
- epgui 3y agoTimeline doesn't seem to line up
- jeltz 3y agoProbably the authentication serer being down.
- Bud 3y ago[dead]
- nonrandomstring 3y agoLovely bit of cloaked dramatic irony in "Leave The World Behind" t=1:11:20 [0] Ruth (Myha'la): This is for the better. G.H (Mahershala Ali): For who? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leave_the_World_Behind_(film)
- dmk 3y agoGoogle login also seems to be having issues, multiple people reported to me that the login isn’t working and they’ve been logged out of their Google accounts.
- ExoticPearTree 3y agoYes, I tried logging in today in two distinct Google accounts on separate Chrome profiles and it would sign me out in about ~ 5 seconds after logging in. And the login process was very sluggish.
- slowhadoken 3y agoYouTube is down too. Only thing working is Twitter.
- bookofjoe 3y agoYouTube works fine for me in Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A.
- slowhadoken 3y agoIt’s working again. It’s been experiencing outages since 6am I guess.
- coffedean 3y agoYouTube seems okay here. East coast US.
- jgehrcke 3y agoMight be related to this event? > The cut lines include Asia-Africa-Europe 1, the Europe India Gateway, Seacom and TGN-Gulf, Hong Kong-based HGC Global Communications said. It described the cuts as affecting 25% of the traffic flowing through the Red Sea. https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-houthi-rebels-attacks-b53051f61a41bd6b357860bbf0b0860a https://apnews.com/article/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-hou... https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68478828.amp
- suyash 3y agotime to move away from undersea cables to satellites.
- BearOso 3y agoLEO satellites would be too inconsistent, and further orbits have way too much latency.
- pksebben 3y agoWe have satellites. We use cables b/c they lack the speed and bandwidth necessary to support the total requirements of the modern internet. Satellite-only is only feasible if you're fine with going back to waiting minutes for your saucy jpegs to load (elder millennials, you know what I'm talkin' about).
- suyash 3y agoever heard of Musk's Starlink? From thier website "Starlink users typically experience download speeds between 25 and 220 Mbps, with a majority of users experiencing speeds over 100 Mbps" - https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1400-28829-70 https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1400-28829-70
- SSLy 3y agoI was thinking is deploy of DMA "compliant" unbundling the day before it takes force. Could be both.
- C4RN1 3y ago[flagged]
- newsclues 3y agoNothing of value was lost.
- deadbabe 3y agoEntire businesses and livelihoods would crumble without Meta’s platforms.
- newsclues 3y agoThey can migrate to other platforms.
- binaryblitz 3y agoWhat platforms have anywhere near the reach and services that Meta does for a marketplace/advertising? I'm not personally a fan of most social media, but saying "they could go somewhere else" is a pretty naieve/ignorant response.
- tjpnz 3y agoIf your business only exists at the sole discretion of Meta then it's not a viable business, at least not in the longterm.
- aloe_falsa 3y agoTechnically true, just as if you replace Meta with Amazon, Google Cloud, Etsy, eBay, the local city council, etc. If you don't have a diversified, multi-market, preferably international presence, you're not viable in the long term. Of course, in the really long term, we're all dead. Meanwhile, the local mom & pop candy shops keep advertising and selling online and making ends meet.
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- d3zzyd 3y agoDown here in South Africa too.. it's weird that it's not affecting everyone, yet it's worldwide.. It's almost as if it's taking down a percentage or section of addresses/uid's on their database... I wouldn't be surprised to hear that everyone affected, joined the app at a similar date, or the sequential uid's. To me this sounds like more than a bug.. I wouldn't be surprised if it's a hack.
- kerirenee21 3y agoI agree with this 100%! I do not believe this is just a little bug. This is more. There’s been a lot of things happening that people are trying to ignore. But this just adds to it..
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- bluetidepro 3y agoOn Super Tuesday in the US today, too. Very interesting timing for how much political nonsense is on social media.
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- stevefan1999 3y agoThis is so funny because the status page itself actually shows 500 Internal Server Error to me in the API calls. So the status page clearly isn't isolated from the FB network itself. I highly suspect it is either a BGP convergence issue, or their OIDC service hits the dirt.
- hsuduebc2 3y agoFunny. This page won't work too and is clearly down. So there is possiblity of pretty big amateurism from facebook or failure at dns servers.
- bigwheeler 3y agoTip for Meta engineers: when your service is failing, don't just log people out and prevent logins. Display a cute image that shows that the service is drastically failing (like a whale or something), and then people will know to stop trying to repeatedly log in. The public might even come up with a catchy name for the whale.
- newman8r 3y agoHow many other people here just assumed they had been banned for some arbitrary, uncontestable reason? I just use instagram to post hiking photos...
- TonyTrapp 3y agoHaving had a look at desperate Twitter posts during a major outage of a big German email provider with similar failure mode (login failed silently), it seemed like many people assumed that their email account was hacked. Close enough.
- zerr 3y agoFor anything outside like-ing and post-ing, facebooks UI/UX is horrendous. Even Internet search does not help to find out how something trivial is done... The only way is to watch youtube videos.
- dspillett 3y ago> For anything outside like-ing and post-ing, facebooks UI/UX is horrendous. It isn't perfect for even that IMO. > Even Internet search does not help to find out how something trivial is done... The only way is to watch youtube videos. That says more about where the web is heading than about facebook. Video is easier to monetise ATM⁰, and these days people don't put helpful stuff out there just to be helpful as much as they once did¹, so content creators are making them instead of simple web pages. -- [0] Everyone wants to be the next big influenza who doesn't need a day job to get by. [1] That sort of people are still out there, though they are somewhat drowned out as the signal-to-noise ratio heads inexorably towards “WHAT? WHAT?! I can't hear a single thing above the manscaping adverts!”.
- kossTKR 3y agoCloudflare also having issues as of 1 hour ago: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com https://www.cloudflarestatus.com I wonder if it's connected to this. Seems like most large players are having issues now.
- magk 3y agoCloudflare reporting that they were implementing a fix for something SSO-related at 16:02. https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
- alecatoric 3y agoThis is also happening to me. When I try to reset my password using their password recovery I get "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again." For some reason my phone number is not working as a way to get a recovery code, same error. I can't get the recovery code sent from the app or from my browser on my laptop, but when I use my chrome browser on my pixel it sends me a recovery code, which results in "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again."
- daniyelcr1212 3y agoMy Facebook is down
- daniyelcr1212 3y ago[flagged]
- daniyelcr1212 3y agoMy service is down
- annoyingnoob 3y agoI don't use Meta's services but I have a number of co-workers that are all convinced that their Meta accounts have been hacked.
- amyamy1 3y agoI reaceived a highlight from a friend on fb tagging me in a kfc promotion, i clicked the add to the promotion and liked , followed and text @highlight, after that i was completely logged out from fb and instagram. With passoword being rejected etc.
- oldmanfrom1900s 3y agoGlad I'm not the only one!
- AtNightWeCode 3y agoSSO in Cloudflare also seems to have problems.
- hsuduebc2 3y agoIt looks like AWS is down if we can trust downdetector which is reason why nothing works. Almost fifty percent of these services runs on this cloud.
- sammy2255 3y agoWe can’t trust downdetector. Its just user reports. And users dont know anythig
- cdme 3y agoEh, leave them down.
- chhailavi_27 3y agoi can't log in my account nor create one
- shoebham 3y agohackernews is also v slow for me
- mlucas82 3y agoFrankly, I don't buy this explanation - technically or logically both from a devops,and systems architecture level - There is no way in hell a company like Meta is pushing database design changes this significant to production? We all know how many times these database architecture changes get run in staging,then even production subsets before rolling out to production at large. Should we assume the teams working to ensure Business Continuity & Applications Resiliency redundancies feel asleep at the wheel? Also, to assume that no down or outage messaging go out during a fairly routine maintenance based outage? I call BS Lol I can't find scenario where this happens, at this scale at a company of Meta's scale
- kerirenee21 3y agoI don’t buy it either! Something’s fishy…
- mlucas82 3y agoor phishy or both for sure
- hsuduebc2 3y agoWell if everything down maybe isn't problem at services itself but at the DNS side?
- vb-8448 3y agoSeems like even the status page doesn't work ... i'd say typical for this type of situations :D :D :D
- mlucas82 3y agoFrankly, I don't buy this explanation - technically or logically both from a devops,and systems architecture level - There is no way in hell a company like Meta is pushing database design changes this significant to production? We all know how many times these database architecture changes get run in staging,then even production subsets before rolling out to production at large. Should we assume the teams working to ensure Business Continuity & Applications Resiliency redundancies fell asleep at the wheel? Also, to assume that no down or outage messaging go out during a fairly routine maintenance based outage? I call BS Lol I can't find scenario where this happens, at this scale at a company of Meta's scale...
- buserror 3y agoI can confirm that IRC still works! Pfewwwww..... /me takes his coat.
- nelle 3y agoBoth facebook and WhatsApp is not working globally, at first i thought someone hacked me
- bookofjoe 3y agoI find it remarkable that Typepad, my blog host, not only isn't down but also is MUCH FASTER than its usual slothlike, approximately 5 seconds response time.
- Rudraksh_1514 3y agoIt's back up here in India now.
- nuz 3y agoHN also seems unusually slow. Wonder what's going on
- belter 3y agoProbably DNS ...it's always DNS....
- thinkingemote 3y agoBGP is my guess
- joejoesvk 3y agogood luck to those on call
- btbuildem 3y agoHope it stays broken. Imagine? People would blink, confused, and slowly start to wake from a decade-long stupor.
- kome 3y agohow many people, realistically, use it daily? I think not a lot
- explain 3y agoReally?
- lenerdenator 3y agoBoomers probably do.
- thehappypm 3y agoLike, everyone I know is on TikTok all the time and Reels is right up there
- gpvos 3y agoLots and lots. Look at how many people are in this thread.
- Bud 3y ago[dead]
- vincnetas 3y agocouple billions.
- randomnumber314 3y ago>Facebook: global daily active users 2023. >Statista https://www.statista.com https://www.statista.com › statistics › facebook-global-dau Feb 9, 2024 — During the fourth quarter of 2023, the number of daily active users on Facebook reached 2.1 billion, a minor increase on the previous quarter. So roughly 28% of the planet.
- bookofjoe 3y agoMy Meta Ray-Ban Stories glasses are working just fine FWIW
- kilbill 3y agogreeting from indonesia,Here too, the same error, lots of people asking what is wrong with FB IG error, lots of speculation saying update, but the repair process is taking too long without any confirmation from meta, something strange is happening
- Generalist3001 3y agoI can access what I call my family FB account, which I run on Firefox. When I try to access my general purpose account I'm forced to log in again. And when I try to change my password I get the "An unexpected error occurred. Please try logging in again." message. I suspect that one of the password servers has been compromised.
- Solvency 3y ago[flagged]
- kordlessagain 3y agoDealing in absolutes is a result of misaligned expectations.
- sandspar 3y ago"The Force SHOULD have saved my mother's life!" - Anakin Skywalker
- packetslave 3y ago"blah blah blah I don't like the company so all their engineers must be really stupid..."
- Solvency 3y ago"The metaverse is the future of this company! We've hired the very best brains in the world to make these 1998 era PS1 polygon avatars!" whole company goes offline
- packetslave 3y agoThe Metaverse engineers and AI researchers don't actually run the infrastructure, but by all means, keep shitposting. It's so clever.
- kome 3y agoI am surprised by how many people still use Facebook around here, as my social circle deleted or stopped using Facebook a long time ago.
- belter 3y agoInternet Outages Map - https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/
- worldwidelies 3y agoIs it coincidence that Meta is trying to get portions of NSOs source code via the court system. Also today is apparently a big voting day. The techno-apocalypse is near.
- C4RN1 3y agoWho thinks Meta pushed to prod without testing?
- didip 3y agoLaid off too many people? Critical services no longer have owners?
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- moerae 3y ago[flagged]
- ur-whale 3y agoSince we're in full-on speculation mode ... Russian cyber-attack ?
- KoalaKing1 3y agoGlad, I found this. I literally just told me boss I spilled my coffee on my desk so I could have a break and figure this things out. F'ing FB... Thank you to whoever started this post. I tried resetting my password many times and also thought I was HaX0red.
- TanyaSM 3y ago[flagged]
- tinycoder25 3y agoStatus page show some services are recovering. I wonder why ad services is the first service to be mentioned as recovering instead of login.
- hengistbury 3y agoNo reason to allow people on the platform if you can't monetise them, especially after monetisation has been paused for a few hours
- ricardobayes 3y agoOh, that's why I was logged out then.
- solfox 3y agoSeeing such a large web property go down like this is fascinating. It's like a power plant grid failure, except for attention instead of energy. When meta is down, a hoard of internet users desperately seek somewhere else to place their attention... But the system is designed with the expectation that meta will take all that traffic... And boom! everything starts falling over. Wild.
- Vicinity9635 3y ago[dead]
- alwaysrunning 3y agoIt's DNS
- nayuki 3y agoNote that this web page only covers the status of Meta's offerings for business users. This doesn't track the downtime of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, etc. as normal users experience them.
- jeanlucas 3y agoCuriously, WhatsApp did not suffer an outage in Brazil.
- FerretFred 3y ago> Ads Manager - Recovering from disruptions LOLLLL .. oh dear
- BlueEyes77 3y ago[dead]
- fuzzfactor 3y agoAt least it's not a mission-critical website . . .
- srvmshr 3y agoI have an active Instagram account. Today, coincidentally was the first time I thought of promoting my best few posts as an ad to improve reach to fellow photographers. Bad luck! The app now seems to be back online but my ads which were supposed to run for 48-72 hours, show <Disabled>. And there is a new "Pay Now" link, even though it was paid for and seems ad-spend is already showing it used some of that payment. As an individual, this is pretty confusing. I don't have much to lose. I am glad I spent 10-15 bucks on favorite 2-3 posts only. I can imagine many others to be more affected. What is normally to be expected for SME users? Does Meta resume the ads automatically? Do they make good for the lost time since the clock seems to be ticking -- although no one saw any impression. Edit: I submitted a ticket to Instagram Help and they responded by asking for a screencast video. The first time I sent, the video bounced. I have re-sent this by trimming the video. Out of curiosity I want to know firsthand how Meta handles the small customers.
- Babadas 3y agoEveryone Beware, The “Black Hat Hackers” that have accomplished this massive Global hack represent a Clear and Present Danger, immediate and significant threat/danger to National Security, as well as all People’s personal and financial Security
- Babadas 3y agoEveryone beware, The “Black Hat Hackers” that have accomplished this massive Global hack represent a Clear and Present Danger, immediate and significant threat/danger to National Security, as well as all People’s personal and financial Security
- Ajay-p 3y agoEesh I thought it was a hacking situation.
- kosolam 3y agoWhy the outage?
- ragmondo 3y agoDoesn't this kind of thing happen in every film regarding an AI becoming sentient ??
- uselpa 3y agoFor now, some countries preparing a larger war seems more likely.
- YeBanKo 3y agoSo I guess this is what that national security warning and purchase of Palo Alto Networks stocks was all about in mid February.
- WobblyTyre 3y agoCan you elaborate further?
- Razengan 3y agoSince my dedicated post about this got no response, I want to use this opportunity to ask: WHERE the HELL does Facebook store tracking data on my iPhone? It shows my previous account even after I delete the app, clear the cache and KeyChain, disable iCloud Drive, AND sign out of iCloud?? Why can't I see where this data is stored? Same for TikTok. WHY does Apple, parading around as a pompous paragon of privacy, allow this bullshit?
- ak_111 3y agoI have a very tangential question to this situation prompted by some conspiracy theories linking the outage to today being Super Tuesday election day in the US. Why does Facebook need sharing news media or political ad targeting on its platform from a business point of view? Am I being naive or is it really such an important revenue driver to the business or the core experience of the app? I think it is the source of enormous reputational damage and risk, that if I was running the company I would even happily trade 10% if not more of the market cap to removing any feature that enables news sharing on the platform. Actually if you remove these two things (political ad targeting and commenting on news media) I struggle to find any other issue that would make facebook a "political" target, they can literally shutdown the fake news division that employs 10,000 people...
- cheeseomlit 3y agoThe ability to affect the outcome of elections is very much worth the political flak for them
- dtdynasty 3y agoMy guess would be that they would lose a significant amount of their user base and engagement without politics and news media.
- stemlord 3y agoAnd nothing of value was lost
- perlpimp 3y agoprobably some sort of BGP flood.
- m3drano 3y agowild speculation: they were rolling out enforcement for DMA.
- baby 3y agothis is the message I'm getting on X now: https://www.threads.net/@cryptodavidw/post/C4JRaX9vZYE https://www.threads.net/@cryptodavidw/post/C4JRaX9vZYE
- seb1204 3y agoSo why is this site metastatus.com and not status.meta.com as mentioned in an earlier article here the east amount of domain names these big corps have is not helping with making sure this is not a scam. So why metastatus.com and not metastatuscheck.com? Sure that the buffs at Mets could come up with an independent machine that can show the status even if everything else is down.
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- pvg 3y agoEdit: I'm leaving the comment as penance but as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39610130 points out, this is an old message about an old update, not the current one. A short update from meta with some initial high level technical details: https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A10158791436142200%7D&path=%2Fnotes%2Fnote%2F https://m.facebook.com/nt/screen/?params=%7B%22note_id%22%3A...
- HenriTEL 3y agoSo it's a bug of the "automated remediation that makes things worse" family. This system that checks for invalid values in the cache looks like a very bad idea in the first place as in my understanding it checks things beyond "is the cache up to date?".
- gene31337 3y agoThat's from 2010. edit: https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/24/facebook.outage/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/09/24/facebook.ou...
- pvg 3y agoYou're absolutely right, thanks, my mistake trusting random URLs on HN/the internet!
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- pilgrim0 3y agoInteresting how such large scale outages can ONLY happen because of human errors, in this case by a poorly thought out heuristics. Like, a literal explosion could hardly achieve this level of disruption when there’s physical failover protections everywhere.
- mikrotikker 3y agoWhat about cyber attack? It's super Tuesday...
- buttofthejoke 3y ago600th comment
- thecleaner 3y agoSo not really an outage ? Just meta
- gck1 3y agoIn my country (Georgia), I received dozens of reports from people saying that after the outage, they have been offered to sign in to other users' Facebook accounts and were successful in doing that. I can't confirm it, but it appears that this was happening to accounts that were co-admins of Facebook pages.
- husamia 3y agoI wonder if this is related to 3 Red Sea data cables cut as Houthis launch more attacks in the vital waterway https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/04/red-sea-undersea-cables-yemen-houthi-rebels-attacks/2f2c6b8a-da34-11ee-b5e9-ad4573c62315_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/03/04/red-sea-u...
- Vilian 3y agoThe cable cut only gonna after the arab world, or maybe india, but eropean to india communication don't depend on them that much so it's unlikelly, so probably not
- mrzaggy 3y agoAnyone having luck resetting passwords yet? My Messenger and FB on my phone magically logged back in a day or so ago, but on my PC, no luck - and that PC doesn't seem to recognise the password I thought it was before the outage.