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Facebook was down

270 points by z0a 12y ago

Nib 12y ago
Holy shit, I caught Facebook when it was down!!! Yeah!!!
kosso 12y ago
And suddenly the world had no idea what kind of [fruit/turnip/pair of socks] they are.
- FranOntanaya 12y ago
  Today Facebook is potato.
illyasv 12y ago
HCMC Vietnam down
prateek_mir 12y ago
any hypotheses on what would have happened ?
sudeep1 12y ago
It is down from here Nepal too.
- nicoduc 12y ago
  down from France
mikesena 12y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com
sidcool 12y ago
Actually looks like that; I am getting the following message: Sorry, Something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Edit - This is India reporting.
- marak830 12y ago
  Same from japan
ahaproudowl 12y ago
Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'. Like and follow buttons affected too. Network error on the App.
- tomorgan 12y ago
  lol at "down in Wales" making it a pretty big "down" j/k ;)
  - daledavies 12y ago
    Nothing like this ever happens in Wales!
creativityhurts 12y ago
Definitely down http://cl.ly/W9Vm http://cl.ly/W9Vm
tomorgan 12y ago
and from here (UK)
- sawmebabe 12y ago
  Zimbabwe
- agiledevers 12y ago
  Spain
imaginenore 12y ago
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
- gchokov 12y ago
  I took off my wlan cable on and off. It didn't help. Then I stopped the electricity for a moment - I believe in complete cold restarts. Still nothing :)
octagonal 12y ago
Reposting this from my own "Facebook is down" thread because this one has more visibility: pi@pi ~ $ curl -I http://facebook.com/ http://facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 503 No server is available for the request Server: proxygen Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:54:55 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 2131
afshinmeh 12y ago
Finally.
ashdav 12y ago
Down from Australia
buf 12y ago
Down from London as well
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JacobAldridge 12y ago
In related news, productivity highs appear in workplaces around the world... [Edit] It's down down under as well.
- sidcool 12y ago
  Fortunately, we don't have access to Facebook from work. But unfortunately, Hacker News works :)
- blueskin_ 12y ago
  Sitting there hitting F5 == productivity?
xnerak 12y ago
Down from Singapore too. At first, I thought they had finally blocked facebook at work.
nowords 12y ago
UK can confirm
dodyg 12y ago
Down in Egypt
bolaft 12y ago
Is this a first? I can't remember the last time it happened. Edit: down in France as well.
brianlovin 12y ago
$2.5b revenue in Q12014. ~$321 revenue per second. A costly outage, no?
- pizza 12y ago
  drop in the bucket
  - daimyoyo 12y ago
    I would hardly call more than a half a million dollars a "drop in the bucket."
    - LunaSea 12y ago
      Value is relative. So yes it is in fact a "drop in the bucket".
th0br0 12y ago
and Germany. First major outage, no?
Rygu 12y ago
Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That's pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.
- chintan100 12y ago
  Could not use Connect with Facebook in an iOS app. So their APIs seem to be down as well.
- nostromo 12y ago
  Yes. OAuth dialogs don't load and the graph API is down too.
  - rodgerd 12y ago
    "Why write your own login? Just use Facebook!" is not looking like sound advice right about now.
    - orf 12y ago
      Why? Because of 10 minutes of downtime?
      - Gurrewe 12y ago
        It's 25 minutes of downtime now. :)
    - jacquesm 12y ago
      Apologies, I missed the 'upvote' and hit the 'downvote' instead.
- montag 12y ago
  Sign in with Facebook is down at the moment.
- gprasanth 12y ago
  Graph API is down: http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture
kccqzy 12y ago
Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com https://www.v6.facebook.com % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p" Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Set-Cookie: reg_fb_gate=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=/; domain=.facebook.com Set-Cookie: reg_fb_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=/; domain=.facebook.com Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 X-FB-Debug: [REDACTED] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:03:22 GMT Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 48441 So I'm guessing it's related to their IPv4 infrastructure. Say, a load balancer?
- daGrevis 12y ago
  Not anymore. :)
  - clarkm 12y ago
    Yep, IPv6 is down for me too.
  - volent 12y ago
    Working for me, is it giving you an error 503 like the ipv4 ?
    - clarkm 12y ago
      I'm getting a 503 on ipv4, but just no route to host on ipv6.
- toxicFork 12y ago
  Interesting, maybe someone accidentally pressed the 'kill ipv4 interface' button?
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sandeepravi 12y ago
Down in India too. Seems like a major screw up.
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daimyoyo 12y ago
Wow. As far as I know, this is unprecedented. A worldwide outage.
comrade1 12y ago
Down from the moon too.
sidcool 12y ago
This is the first time I have observed upvotes piling up so fast. It was just 7 points a few minutes back, now it's 70+
ragsagar 12y ago
Down in Dubai, UAE
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mhoad 12y ago
Down in Kenya
laumars 12y ago
How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3 submissions commenting on a procrastination portal being down is really scraping the barrel. [edit] I see the submissions have now been consolidated. That makes much more sense. Good work HN admins :)
- usaphp 12y ago
  - "who really cares anyway" Imagine how many people are locked out of thousands of websites where the only way to sign in and check your order or something is by using Facebook login, which is not working.
  - laumars 12y ago
    My complaint was actually about the number of submissions rather than it being submitted or that people shouldn't care.
- nly 12y ago
  It's interesting to HN when any high scalability, high availability service is down.
- KinaDeSantis 12y ago
  Personally, I use social networks to boost productivity. Facebook is a good management tool for different groups. I have used it to manage people for the last 4 years and it has been the best platform for me to reach everyone. Sad, but true.
  - piyush_soni 12y ago
    I don't understand why people are downvoting this. It's his way, if you dislike, it's not a reason enough to downvote.
ashdav 12y ago
All Facebook Login sites are also broken. *The internet is down.
porker 12y ago
A good time to test how fast your site loads when the FB JS can't be accessed...
waitingkuo 12y ago
So I can code without disruption now lol
usaphp 12y ago
Facebook like boxes are not working as well.
aikah 12y ago
Down in Belgium.
tienlehut 12y ago
Down in Vietnam
siddhant3s 12y ago
This is the first time I'm seeing FB down. Usually I would just assume my internet connection suck but this time, FB is agreeing that they are down.
- xav 12y ago
  Down in Menlo Park, California!
- 770 12y ago
  Yeah siddhant i'm ayush I have sucking bsnl wifi but this time its not network problem of India
andystevens91 12y ago
Down in Italy too.
rudresh555 12y ago
Its a Marketing Stunt..
mPedoBot 12y ago
It's down, here in Mexico
PotatoTot 12y ago
Yep, down here in Los Angeles, CA
rudresh555 12y ago
Its a Marketing stunt...
yawboakye 12y ago
Down in Ghana
fmax30 12y ago
Maybe they switched their network switches to use Wedge with FBOSS and it crashed under load.
prjohnson 12y ago
Confirmed down in Dubai (via friend).
halR 12y ago
Same at Turkey. http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-yasiyor/ http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-y...
dhwillem 12y ago
Down in Belgium.
nichochar 12y ago
back up, about 4 min down for me
nichochar 12y ago
back up for me. 4 min
acesubido 12y ago
This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interesting 'accidental' social experiment. Honestly, I'm not that interested on what happened technically, but I'm interested what effect it had socially for the common man outside the techcrunch/HN/reddit/tech bubble. On-topic: does facebook have a consolidated status page?
- estel 12y ago
  Not entirely consolidated, but it's down: https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
- manmal 12y ago
  Part of it is going to HN, obviously :) (case in point)
- mseebach 12y ago
  What? Displaced? The common man? Reality check, dude. Nobody is on Facebook constantly. It was down for about 30 minutes, tops. The "common man" just did whatever common men do for all those minutes when they're not on Facebook. Maybe, maybe not, they'll make up the slack later. Sure, someone was inconvenienced because they relied on being able to find some information or send a message on Facebook and couldn't, but I'll bet far, far more people are inconvenienced on a daily basis in a similar way when their smartphone runs out of battery or is stolen or otherwise lost. Or the network (mobile or fixed line) is down.
  - return0 12y ago
    I think you underestimate facebook addiction.
  - acesubido 12y ago
    I didn't use the word "common man" in an "elitist" context, I used it for avid users, which is a lot of people. Most people inside the tech world underestimate the role of facebook for a person who, all their friends, family and loved ones are using it on a daily basis. I do agree that a lot of people, if not, everybody will not go crazy or be inconvenienced by a 30-minute downtime, not everyone is on it 24/7. I'm just saying I'm interested on where all those man-minutes went to for avid users. Probably ringing on their neighbours' door, playing Xbox or having lunch with their family, etc.
azaupa 12y ago
down in italy ...
minhdanh72 12y ago
Down from China, too
- ducvinh 12y ago
  Make scene :)
alphadevx 12y ago
HN: the new Pingdom.
- mahmoudhossam 12y ago
  Speaking of pingdom... http://imgur.com/4r3rEGp http://imgur.com/4r3rEGp
sixQuarks 12y ago
What if they accidentally deleted everything and don't have a backup?
- pestaa 12y ago
  People will start uploading their data to another walled garden.
- makaiookami 12y ago
  Not even possible. Once you delete something it stays on facebook for like weeks. They would have to have accidentally blown up everything with a bomb to have the problem you're talking about.
  - Gonzih 12y ago
    wat?
    - sbntn 12y ago
      The don't actually delete your posts, they mark them as deleted. If the government requests your data they get to see everything, even those posts you decided to delete.
      - Throwaway0812 12y ago
        I think the above post was referring to Facebook losing their data, by their database actually failing. That would mean the hidden deleted posts are also removed. Of course, they wouldn't have a single database or copy of the data, so this is irrelevant. As for not deleting data that you request to be deleted, that's normal practice. I know on every site I run, when someone clicks delete, it flags the content and it's hidden, but remains in the database. Deleted data is still valuable data, and it has a wide variety of uses.
      - _up 12y ago
        Also posts you didn't send. They register every keystroke too!
darksoox 12y ago
Can confirm. Down in Sweden too.
sublee 12y ago
Down in South Korea
zbxd 12y ago
What happened??
thethimble 12y ago
As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)
- creativityhurts 12y ago
  Makes you feel happy you're not working at Facebook now :)
  - dhwillem 12y ago
    nothing wrong with a challenge !
- mattkrea 12y ago
  This happens to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not a good enough excuse when, for example, the corporate sites I run go down. No application, desktop or web app, is truly bulletproof.
  - gbog 12y ago
    Ok, but some are more than others. Facebook is not famous for its outages, as far as I know.
    - mattkrea 12y ago
      You are correct as far as I know. Interestingly enough most of the troubles I used to have were with the absurd amounts of JavaScript on their site and failed XHRs--no full outages.
    - dalore 12y ago
      But they do have a liberal deploy policy which is to deploy all the time and fix issues later. Has bitten them before, but generally considered a good policy.
- uaygsfdbzf 12y ago
  They have all your data. Keeping the site online would just cost money.
maceip 12y ago
down in papua new guinea (south pacific)
deepaksattiraju 12y ago
any guesses why?
- parasight 12y ago
  Mark has stumbled over a cable.
balou 12y ago
Down from China ... nah it's not new
devjohn 12y ago
Down in Philippines
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fidz 12y ago
I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why "a site is down" is a big news that we should care about?
- ollyculverhouse 12y ago
  Like it or hate it the Facebook site isn't just any ordinary site. Combined with the fact that its not just web access that is down, this affects all apps and sites that have Like, Follow, Recommend or Sign In integration.
- nmjohn 12y ago
  It's the second largest site in the world and it is 100% down. Not just a region going down, the entire world. Moreover, it's not just facebook itself, any site or app that uses signin with facebook or their oauth, nope, that is not working either. However the main reason, is I don't know if it's ever gone down before. I certainly cannot think of a time.
- sas1ni69 12y ago
  It's one of the biggest sites in the world so it's a bit different.
- gerhardi 12y ago
  I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why "a man died" is a big news that we should care about? It's all about the context, who/what/where/etc.
- wirebreather 12y ago
  Because it's Facebook.
whbk 12y ago
I got the home page to load once a minute ago (in San Francisco), now back to the standard fail page.
heelhook 12y ago
Follow status updates on Facebook's downtime on http://twitter.com/facebook http://twitter.com/facebook? #fail
dhwillem 12y ago
Seems to be going up and down from belgium
chenster 12y ago
Just noticed that. Luckily, I used it only a few times a day now to avoid popularity contests.
valevk 12y ago
Great way to make everyone not talk about that Amazon phone!
egfx 12y ago
The least they could do is fix the date on the footer. :/ I have an app that shares tweets to Facebook http://2fb.me http://2fb.me so don't "LIKE" what's happening
- egfx 12y ago
  Just me or is it down... again?
ngokevin 12y ago
It's up in Sealand.
rPawel 12y ago
Down in Frankfurt
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- jill-jenn 12y ago
  This video is gonna get a few views today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpNNa_Mokok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpNNa_Mokok
- illyasv 12y ago
  Dont rely on movie, most of it is bullshit
  - Nib 12y ago
    Your'e right, and I didn't do that, the book Accidental Billionares mentioned that Mark Zuckerberg agreed to agrees to having such a conversation with Mr. Saverin
fosron 12y ago
Lithuania too
minikomi 12y ago
It will be down until someone sends them a photo back.
770 12y ago
What happened its not working ~from Raipur India
tantai0109 12y ago
Down from Viet Nam, too
christudor 12y ago
Down in Hong Kong as well.
illyasv 12y ago
Has anyone noticed on the Error page now, copyright is 2013? (http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/ http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/)
- agumonkey 12y ago
  This and the fact that the help URL is points to the same system, meaning free recursive loop for you.
Nib 12y ago
Looks like the downtime is about to hit the half an hour mark
stephanerangaya 12y ago
https://www.prod.facebook.com https://www.prod.facebook.com works for me
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martinmuc 12y ago
Uups, sorry my fault... pressed the pause key
kyriakos 12y ago
Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.
- avoid3d 12y ago
  Perspective: 1 hours downtime a year is already better than 4 9s
  - LunaSea 12y ago
    Yes but that is 1 hour downtime added to your own server's downtime.
Gurrewe 12y ago
https://www.prod.facebook.com https://www.prod.facebook.com still works. :)
nissehulth 12y ago
Maybe they are trying out their new switches. http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-switch-and-it-looks-a-lot-like-a-server/ http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-swit...
- _up 12y ago
  Haha, i thought the same. But could also be the NSA sending a message to not publish this. I mean the NSA needs other Service Providers to use the closed source backdoor infested stuff.
volent 12y ago
I wonder what's happening with the stock price, if anybody as any insight that'd be interesting to know.
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kloncks 12y ago
...and they're back.
- prateek_mir 12y ago
  hahah ! No, still the error page
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vsakos 12y ago
It's definitely Anonymous and Operation Facebook. A bit late but with success...
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xmpir 12y ago
the error page says "Facebook © 2013"
rollthehard6 12y ago
Working again, in the UK at least 09:24 BST
ggregoire 12y ago
Facebook is up now.
bshimmin 12y ago
Back now. How long was that? Half an hour?
- davidcelis 12y ago
  About.
ajnaskt 12y ago
Facebook is up
rPawel 12y ago
And it is UP!
dhwillem 12y ago
And we are back (Belgium)
chipz 12y ago
it's already up!
lominming 12y ago
Graph API seems down, but part of the API is still up. https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
pknerd 12y ago
Yeah Fb is down is most important event in the world now than poverty and hunger. Priorities.
- pknerd 12y ago
  Thanks for downvote. I am honored.
volent 12y ago
Facebook is back up :)
nicomoto1 12y ago
Its working for me now! (India)
Tamazy 12y ago
It sounds like the prophecy ! We all are going to die OMGOMGOMG
RutZap 12y ago
And it's back up. Would be interesting to find out what happened.
- benzheren 12y ago
  seems that lots of pics r not loaded
  - blueskin_ 12y ago
    A lot of the AJAXey stuff isn't working properly either. A comment just took three tries to post.
- watwut 12y ago
  I guess that bug happened.
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nclzz 12y ago
Up now in Italy
industriousthou 12y ago
Back up for me in Orlando.
yawboakye 12y ago
It's back up
NikhilVerma 12y ago
Well it's back again here in the UK.
pieboy 12y ago
its back now
undozen 12y ago
I'm from China. Facebook is down for me like ... always.
- sedeki 12y ago
  I chuckled
integricho 12y ago
Facebook employees, please elaborate... :)
sudeep1 12y ago
Now up here in Nepal
lenniez 12y ago
Down here in Sweden, close to the EU datacentre.
niallpaterson 12y ago
By my reckoning, this cost them about $600,000+. Ouch.
lominming 12y ago
Back up!
pieboy 12y ago
http://prntscr.com/3ubefw http://prntscr.com/3ubefw
keimoon 12y ago
It is up for me now, but there are still a lot of bugs. Most likely their database cluster is being partitioned. My newest feed was liked by some of my friends even though I can't see it in my timeline or newsfeeds :)
xanth 12y ago
This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.
riquito 12y ago
What's the point of a status page if it goes down too? https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
- reitanqild 12y ago
  Also no update yet on the problem. (except for a major spike in api ping times.)
faazshift 12y ago
I wonder how much the facebook devs are freaking out right now trying to fix this!
faazshift 12y ago
Facebook seems to be back again! Hopefully it stays that way! :)
sidcool 12y ago
It's up for me now!! (India)
shashwat986 12y ago
It's up.
Ayaz 12y ago
While it was down, I was noticing an extra 400ms latency in ping responses.
syf81 12y ago
Definitely news worthy, pretty much like a 'first post!' post.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  One of the most popular websites in the world (that over 1/7th of the worlds population use) going down is newsworthy.
  - DanielStraight 12y ago
    No one is ever going to see this post, but... no, it isn't. All sites experience downtime occasionally. Unless it is for some interesting technical reason or it is extended beyond a couple of hours, there is nothing newsworthy about it whatsoever. There is certainly nothing that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about it.
ing33k 12y ago
best way to find out how many people in HN are active fb users .
Kelp0 12y ago
Facebook shows off its DIY Networking Gear. Facebook goes down. Coincidence? http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-its-diy-networking-gear http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-it...
Gnarl 12y ago
Facebook was down? That's fantastic! Hopefully people looked up from their devices and: a) listened to birdsong b) amazed at flowers and plants c) initiated a conversation with someone in physical proximity d) enjoyed what was going on instead of trying to snap a photo of it for facebook e) all of the above or f) kept hitting "reload"...
peeyushcray 12y ago
Why it was down?
keepsmiling 12y ago
finaly..
justinngc 12y ago
Can't wait what Google+ has to say.
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grahamel 12y ago
The statement most news sites are reporting is: “Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused,”
justplay 12y ago
works good here in India.
HannibalLecter 12y ago
How can we KEEP it down?
ravitejak 12y ago
Any Postmortem Details available on this issue,So that it can be resourceful to others too
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- ZenPro 12y ago
  Because it is so cool to hate Facebook. You win the negativity award for today.
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kclay 12y ago
Has facebook ever put up a post mortem of outages?
dysinger 12y ago
Who cares?

Facebook was down

270 points by z0a 12y ago

Nib 12y ago

Holy shit, I caught Facebook when it was down!!! Yeah!!!

kosso 12y ago

And suddenly the world had no idea what kind of [fruit/turnip/pair of socks] they are.

FranOntanaya 12y ago
Today Facebook is potato.

illyasv 12y ago

HCMC Vietnam down

prateek_mir 12y ago

any hypotheses on what would have happened ?

sudeep1 12y ago

It is down from here Nepal too.

nicoduc 12y ago
down from France

mikesena 12y ago

http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

sidcool 12y ago

Actually looks like that; I am getting the following message: Sorry, Something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Edit - This is India reporting.

marak830 12y ago
Same from japan

ahaproudowl 12y ago

Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'. Like and follow buttons affected too. Network error on the App.

tomorgan 12y ago
lol at "down in Wales" making it a pretty big "down" j/k ;)
- daledavies 12y ago
  Nothing like this ever happens in Wales!

creativityhurts 12y ago

Definitely down http://cl.ly/W9Vm http://cl.ly/W9Vm

tomorgan 12y ago

and from here (UK)

sawmebabe 12y ago
Zimbabwe
agiledevers 12y ago
Spain

imaginenore 12y ago

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

gchokov 12y ago
I took off my wlan cable on and off. It didn't help. Then I stopped the electricity for a moment - I believe in complete cold restarts. Still nothing :)

octagonal 12y ago

Reposting this from my own "Facebook is down" thread because this one has more visibility: pi@pi ~ $ curl -I http://facebook.com/ http://facebook.com/ HTTP/1.1 503 No server is available for the request Server: proxygen Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:54:55 GMT Connection: close Content-Length: 2131

afshinmeh 12y ago

Finally.

ashdav 12y ago

Down from Australia

buf 12y ago

Down from London as well

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JacobAldridge 12y ago

In related news, productivity highs appear in workplaces around the world... [Edit] It's down down under as well.

sidcool 12y ago
Fortunately, we don't have access to Facebook from work. But unfortunately, Hacker News works :)
blueskin_ 12y ago
Sitting there hitting F5 == productivity?

xnerak 12y ago

Down from Singapore too. At first, I thought they had finally blocked facebook at work.

nowords 12y ago

UK can confirm

dodyg 12y ago

Down in Egypt

bolaft 12y ago

Is this a first? I can't remember the last time it happened. Edit: down in France as well.

brianlovin 12y ago

$2.5b revenue in Q12014. ~$321 revenue per second. A costly outage, no?

pizza 12y ago
drop in the bucket
- daimyoyo 12y ago
  I would hardly call more than a half a million dollars a "drop in the bucket."
  - LunaSea 12y ago
    Value is relative. So yes it is in fact a "drop in the bucket".

th0br0 12y ago

and Germany. First major outage, no?

Rygu 12y ago

Are their APIs and Sign in with Facebook, also down? That's pretty messed up for all the sites that rely on their Sign in.

chintan100 12y ago
Could not use Connect with Facebook in an iOS app. So their APIs seem to be down as well.
nostromo 12y ago
Yes. OAuth dialogs don't load and the graph API is down too.
- rodgerd 12y ago
  "Why write your own login? Just use Facebook!" is not looking like sound advice right about now.
  - orf 12y ago
    Why? Because of 10 minutes of downtime?
    - Gurrewe 12y ago
      It's 25 minutes of downtime now. :)
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    Apologies, I missed the 'upvote' and hit the 'downvote' instead.
montag 12y ago
Sign in with Facebook is down at the moment.
gprasanth 12y ago
Graph API is down: http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture

kccqzy 12y ago

Apparently Facebook over IPv6 is working: https://www.v6.facebook.com https://www.v6.facebook.com % curl -I https://www.v6.facebook.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=7776000 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff P3P: CP="Facebook does not have a P3P policy. Learn why here: http://fb.me/p3p" Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 0 Cache-Control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate Expires: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 GMT Set-Cookie: reg_fb_gate=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=/; domain=.facebook.com Set-Cookie: reg_fb_ref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.v6.facebook.com%2F; path=/; domain=.facebook.com Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 X-FB-Debug: [REDACTED] Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 08:03:22 GMT Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 48441 So I'm guessing it's related to their IPv4 infrastructure. Say, a load balancer?

daGrevis 12y ago
Not anymore. :)
- clarkm 12y ago
  Yep, IPv6 is down for me too.
- volent 12y ago
  Working for me, is it giving you an error 503 like the ipv4 ?
  - clarkm 12y ago
    I'm getting a 503 on ipv4, but just no route to host on ipv6.
toxicFork 12y ago
Interesting, maybe someone accidentally pressed the 'kill ipv4 interface' button?
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sandeepravi 12y ago

Down in India too. Seems like a major screw up.

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daimyoyo 12y ago

Wow. As far as I know, this is unprecedented. A worldwide outage.

comrade1 12y ago

Down from the moon too.

sidcool 12y ago

This is the first time I have observed upvotes piling up so fast. It was just 7 points a few minutes back, now it's 70+

ragsagar 12y ago

Down in Dubai, UAE

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mhoad 12y ago

Down in Kenya

laumars 12y ago

How many submissions do we need on this topic? Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function. I normally down vote people when they say "what does xyz have to do with HN?", but 3 submissions commenting on a procrastination portal being down is really scraping the barrel. [edit] I see the submissions have now been consolidated. That makes much more sense. Good work HN admins :)

usaphp 12y ago
- "who really cares anyway" Imagine how many people are locked out of thousands of websites where the only way to sign in and check your order or something is by using Facebook login, which is not working.
- laumars 12y ago
  My complaint was actually about the number of submissions rather than it being submitted or that people shouldn't care.
nly 12y ago
It's interesting to HN when any high scalability, high availability service is down.
KinaDeSantis 12y ago
Personally, I use social networks to boost productivity. Facebook is a good management tool for different groups. I have used it to manage people for the last 4 years and it has been the best platform for me to reach everyone. Sad, but true.
- piyush_soni 12y ago
  I don't understand why people are downvoting this. It's his way, if you dislike, it's not a reason enough to downvote.

ashdav 12y ago

All Facebook Login sites are also broken. *The internet is down.

porker 12y ago

A good time to test how fast your site loads when the FB JS can't be accessed...

waitingkuo 12y ago

So I can code without disruption now lol

usaphp 12y ago

Facebook like boxes are not working as well.

aikah 12y ago

Down in Belgium.

tienlehut 12y ago

Down in Vietnam

siddhant3s 12y ago

This is the first time I'm seeing FB down. Usually I would just assume my internet connection suck but this time, FB is agreeing that they are down.

xav 12y ago
Down in Menlo Park, California!
770 12y ago
Yeah siddhant i'm ayush I have sucking bsnl wifi but this time its not network problem of India

andystevens91 12y ago

Down in Italy too.

rudresh555 12y ago

Its a Marketing Stunt..

mPedoBot 12y ago

It's down, here in Mexico

PotatoTot 12y ago

Yep, down here in Los Angeles, CA

rudresh555 12y ago

Its a Marketing stunt...

yawboakye 12y ago

Down in Ghana

fmax30 12y ago

Maybe they switched their network switches to use Wedge with FBOSS and it crashed under load.

prjohnson 12y ago

Confirmed down in Dubai (via friend).

halR 12y ago

Same at Turkey. http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-yasiyor/ http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-y...

dhwillem 12y ago

Down in Belgium.

nichochar 12y ago

back up, about 4 min down for me

nichochar 12y ago

back up for me. 4 min

acesubido 12y ago

This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser? The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interesting 'accidental' social experiment. Honestly, I'm not that interested on what happened technically, but I'm interested what effect it had socially for the common man outside the techcrunch/HN/reddit/tech bubble. On-topic: does facebook have a consolidated status page?

estel 12y ago
Not entirely consolidated, but it's down: https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
manmal 12y ago
Part of it is going to HN, obviously :) (case in point)
mseebach 12y ago
What? Displaced? The common man? Reality check, dude. Nobody is on Facebook constantly. It was down for about 30 minutes, tops. The "common man" just did whatever common men do for all those minutes when they're not on Facebook. Maybe, maybe not, they'll make up the slack later. Sure, someone was inconvenienced because they relied on being able to find some information or send a message on Facebook and couldn't, but I'll bet far, far more people are inconvenienced on a daily basis in a similar way when their smartphone runs out of battery or is stolen or otherwise lost. Or the network (mobile or fixed line) is down.
- return0 12y ago
  I think you underestimate facebook addiction.
- acesubido 12y ago
  I didn't use the word "common man" in an "elitist" context, I used it for avid users, which is a lot of people. Most people inside the tech world underestimate the role of facebook for a person who, all their friends, family and loved ones are using it on a daily basis. I do agree that a lot of people, if not, everybody will not go crazy or be inconvenienced by a 30-minute downtime, not everyone is on it 24/7. I'm just saying I'm interested on where all those man-minutes went to for avid users. Probably ringing on their neighbours' door, playing Xbox or having lunch with their family, etc.

azaupa 12y ago

down in italy ...

minhdanh72 12y ago

Down from China, too

ducvinh 12y ago
Make scene :)

alphadevx 12y ago

HN: the new Pingdom.

mahmoudhossam 12y ago
Speaking of pingdom... http://imgur.com/4r3rEGp http://imgur.com/4r3rEGp

sixQuarks 12y ago

What if they accidentally deleted everything and don't have a backup?

pestaa 12y ago
People will start uploading their data to another walled garden.
makaiookami 12y ago
Not even possible. Once you delete something it stays on facebook for like weeks. They would have to have accidentally blown up everything with a bomb to have the problem you're talking about.
- Gonzih 12y ago
  wat?
  - sbntn 12y ago
    The don't actually delete your posts, they mark them as deleted. If the government requests your data they get to see everything, even those posts you decided to delete.
    - Throwaway0812 12y ago
      I think the above post was referring to Facebook losing their data, by their database actually failing. That would mean the hidden deleted posts are also removed. Of course, they wouldn't have a single database or copy of the data, so this is irrelevant. As for not deleting data that you request to be deleted, that's normal practice. I know on every site I run, when someone clicks delete, it flags the content and it's hidden, but remains in the database. Deleted data is still valuable data, and it has a wide variety of uses.
    - _up 12y ago
      Also posts you didn't send. They register every keystroke too!

darksoox 12y ago

Can confirm. Down in Sweden too.

sublee 12y ago

Down in South Korea

zbxd 12y ago

What happened??

thethimble 12y ago

As a new sysadmin, it brings me comfort that even sites like facebook go down sometimes :)

creativityhurts 12y ago
Makes you feel happy you're not working at Facebook now :)
- dhwillem 12y ago
  nothing wrong with a challenge !
mattkrea 12y ago
This happens to everyone. Unfortunately, it's not a good enough excuse when, for example, the corporate sites I run go down. No application, desktop or web app, is truly bulletproof.
- gbog 12y ago
  Ok, but some are more than others. Facebook is not famous for its outages, as far as I know.
  - mattkrea 12y ago
    You are correct as far as I know. Interestingly enough most of the troubles I used to have were with the absurd amounts of JavaScript on their site and failed XHRs--no full outages.
  - dalore 12y ago
    But they do have a liberal deploy policy which is to deploy all the time and fix issues later. Has bitten them before, but generally considered a good policy.
uaygsfdbzf 12y ago
They have all your data. Keeping the site online would just cost money.

maceip 12y ago

down in papua new guinea (south pacific)

deepaksattiraju 12y ago

any guesses why?

parasight 12y ago
Mark has stumbled over a cable.

balou 12y ago

Down from China ... nah it's not new

devjohn 12y ago

Down in Philippines

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fidz 12y ago

I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why "a site is down" is a big news that we should care about?

ollyculverhouse 12y ago
Like it or hate it the Facebook site isn't just any ordinary site. Combined with the fact that its not just web access that is down, this affects all apps and sites that have Like, Follow, Recommend or Sign In integration.
nmjohn 12y ago
It's the second largest site in the world and it is 100% down. Not just a region going down, the entire world. Moreover, it's not just facebook itself, any site or app that uses signin with facebook or their oauth, nope, that is not working either. However the main reason, is I don't know if it's ever gone down before. I certainly cannot think of a time.
sas1ni69 12y ago
It's one of the biggest sites in the world so it's a bit different.
gerhardi 12y ago
I am sorry if this is ever discussed, but could someone tell me why "a man died" is a big news that we should care about? It's all about the context, who/what/where/etc.
wirebreather 12y ago
Because it's Facebook.

whbk 12y ago

I got the home page to load once a minute ago (in San Francisco), now back to the standard fail page.

heelhook 12y ago

Follow status updates on Facebook's downtime on http://twitter.com/facebook http://twitter.com/facebook? #fail

dhwillem 12y ago

Seems to be going up and down from belgium

chenster 12y ago

Just noticed that. Luckily, I used it only a few times a day now to avoid popularity contests.

valevk 12y ago

Great way to make everyone not talk about that Amazon phone!

egfx 12y ago

The least they could do is fix the date on the footer. :/ I have an app that shares tweets to Facebook http://2fb.me http://2fb.me so don't "LIKE" what's happening

egfx 12y ago
Just me or is it down... again?

ngokevin 12y ago

It's up in Sealand.

rPawel 12y ago

Down in Frankfurt

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jill-jenn 12y ago
This video is gonna get a few views today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpNNa_Mokok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpNNa_Mokok
illyasv 12y ago
Dont rely on movie, most of it is bullshit
- Nib 12y ago
  Your'e right, and I didn't do that, the book Accidental Billionares mentioned that Mark Zuckerberg agreed to agrees to having such a conversation with Mr. Saverin

fosron 12y ago

Lithuania too

minikomi 12y ago

It will be down until someone sends them a photo back.

770 12y ago

What happened its not working ~from Raipur India

tantai0109 12y ago

Down from Viet Nam, too

christudor 12y ago

Down in Hong Kong as well.

illyasv 12y ago

Has anyone noticed on the Error page now, copyright is 2013? (http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/ http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/)

agumonkey 12y ago
This and the fact that the help URL is points to the same system, meaning free recursive loop for you.

Nib 12y ago

Looks like the downtime is about to hit the half an hour mark

stephanerangaya 12y ago

https://www.prod.facebook.com https://www.prod.facebook.com works for me

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martinmuc 12y ago

Uups, sorry my fault... pressed the pause key

kyriakos 12y ago

Time for people to seriously reconsider using all those Facebook plugins and relying on Facebook for user sign in.

avoid3d 12y ago
Perspective: 1 hours downtime a year is already better than 4 9s
- LunaSea 12y ago
  Yes but that is 1 hour downtime added to your own server's downtime.

Gurrewe 12y ago

https://www.prod.facebook.com https://www.prod.facebook.com still works. :)

nissehulth 12y ago

Maybe they are trying out their new switches. http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-switch-and-it-looks-a-lot-like-a-server/ http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-swit...

_up 12y ago
Haha, i thought the same. But could also be the NSA sending a message to not publish this. I mean the NSA needs other Service Providers to use the closed source backdoor infested stuff.

volent 12y ago

I wonder what's happening with the stock price, if anybody as any insight that'd be interesting to know.

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kloncks 12y ago

...and they're back.

prateek_mir 12y ago
hahah ! No, still the error page

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vsakos 12y ago

It's definitely Anonymous and Operation Facebook. A bit late but with success...

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rollthehard6 12y ago

Working again, in the UK at least 09:24 BST

ggregoire 12y ago

Facebook is up now.

bshimmin 12y ago

Back now. How long was that? Half an hour?

davidcelis 12y ago
About.

ajnaskt 12y ago

Facebook is up

rPawel 12y ago

And it is UP!

dhwillem 12y ago

And we are back (Belgium)

chipz 12y ago

it's already up!

lominming 12y ago

Graph API seems down, but part of the API is still up. https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/

pknerd 12y ago

Yeah Fb is down is most important event in the world now than poverty and hunger. Priorities.

pknerd 12y ago
Thanks for downvote. I am honored.

volent 12y ago

Facebook is back up :)

nicomoto1 12y ago

Its working for me now! (India)

Tamazy 12y ago

It sounds like the prophecy ! We all are going to die OMGOMGOMG

RutZap 12y ago

And it's back up. Would be interesting to find out what happened.

benzheren 12y ago
seems that lots of pics r not loaded
- blueskin_ 12y ago
  A lot of the AJAXey stuff isn't working properly either. A comment just took three tries to post.
watwut 12y ago
I guess that bug happened.

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nclzz 12y ago

Up now in Italy

industriousthou 12y ago

Back up for me in Orlando.

yawboakye 12y ago

It's back up

NikhilVerma 12y ago

Well it's back again here in the UK.

pieboy 12y ago

its back now

undozen 12y ago

I'm from China. Facebook is down for me like ... always.

sedeki 12y ago
I chuckled

integricho 12y ago

Facebook employees, please elaborate... :)

sudeep1 12y ago

Now up here in Nepal

lenniez 12y ago

Down here in Sweden, close to the EU datacentre.

niallpaterson 12y ago

By my reckoning, this cost them about $600,000+. Ouch.

lominming 12y ago

Back up!

pieboy 12y ago

http://prntscr.com/3ubefw http://prntscr.com/3ubefw

keimoon 12y ago

It is up for me now, but there are still a lot of bugs. Most likely their database cluster is being partitioned. My newest feed was liked by some of my friends even though I can't see it in my timeline or newsfeeds :)

xanth 12y ago

This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.

riquito 12y ago

What's the point of a status page if it goes down too? https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/

reitanqild 12y ago
Also no update yet on the problem. (except for a major spike in api ping times.)

faazshift 12y ago

I wonder how much the facebook devs are freaking out right now trying to fix this!

faazshift 12y ago

Facebook seems to be back again! Hopefully it stays that way! :)

sidcool 12y ago

It's up for me now!! (India)

shashwat986 12y ago

It's up.

Ayaz 12y ago

While it was down, I was noticing an extra 400ms latency in ping responses.

syf81 12y ago

Definitely news worthy, pretty much like a 'first post!' post.

k-mcgrady 12y ago
One of the most popular websites in the world (that over 1/7th of the worlds population use) going down is newsworthy.
- DanielStraight 12y ago
  No one is ever going to see this post, but... no, it isn't. All sites experience downtime occasionally. Unless it is for some interesting technical reason or it is extended beyond a couple of hours, there is nothing newsworthy about it whatsoever. There is certainly nothing that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity about it.

ing33k 12y ago

best way to find out how many people in HN are active fb users .

Kelp0 12y ago

Facebook shows off its DIY Networking Gear. Facebook goes down. Coincidence? http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-its-diy-networking-gear http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/18/facebook-shows-off-it...

Gnarl 12y ago

Facebook was down? That's fantastic! Hopefully people looked up from their devices and: a) listened to birdsong b) amazed at flowers and plants c) initiated a conversation with someone in physical proximity d) enjoyed what was going on instead of trying to snap a photo of it for facebook e) all of the above or f) kept hitting "reload"...

peeyushcray 12y ago

Why it was down?

keepsmiling 12y ago

finaly..

justinngc 12y ago

Can't wait what Google+ has to say.

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grahamel 12y ago

The statement most news sites are reporting is: “Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused,”

justplay 12y ago

works good here in India.

HannibalLecter 12y ago

How can we KEEP it down?

ravitejak 12y ago

Any Postmortem Details available on this issue,So that it can be resourceful to others too

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ZenPro 12y ago
Because it is so cool to hate Facebook. You win the negativity award for today.
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kclay 12y ago

Has facebook ever put up a post mortem of outages?

dysinger 12y ago

Who cares?