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I 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

• marcosdumay 3y ago
  That's the natural endgame of the "user-facing services must not stop, if something they depend upon stops, they must only degrade" philosophy.
  • lanstin 3y ago
    I heard for a while Netflix would fail open if auth was unavailable. Like it’s just movies just let em see it. Facebook data is more sensitive. Not so much the data people go there to see, cool memes that their friends liked, but the list of friends and interests. Other places I worked had the ability for Ops to push out a change saying the site was down for maintenance. After a while we stopped using it and just took the hit of a bunch of 5xx errors. Basically when the planned down times became shorter than the time to propagate the down setting.
    • marcosdumay 3y ago
      Failing open is maybe ok. Telling everybody on the world their account doesn't exist anymore isn't.