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> When there's a major ISP outage, people report problems with all the major sites. When Facebook's down, people report problems with any site that has "Login w
by rimunroe 3y ago
> When there's a major ISP outage, people report problems with all the major sites. When Facebook's down, people report problems with any site that has "Login with Facebook" as an option.
Yes? That's how all top-level reporting is going to work. It's not going to tell you which part of your service is inaccessible. It's just telling you that people can't access it. You obviously have to do additional investigation to figure out why people are having trouble.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> It's not going to tell you which part of your service is inaccessible. Scroll up the thread a bit; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605354 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605354 Even here on HN, where people should know better, people take its incorrect attribution as useful info. TikTok isn't down. X isn't down. Google isn't down.
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- rimunroe 3y agoI would completely agree that people are bad at interpreting Down Detector-type results, but that doesn't mean it isn't providing a very useful signal.
- jajko 3y agoIndeed I haven't noticed any blip in functionality, but then again I don't ever do FB (or other external service) login. Absolutely no reason to do so, long term drawbacks are too serious to be lazy about this.