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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.
by 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 agoCould not use Connect with Facebook in an iOS app. So their APIs seem to be down as well.
- nostromo 12y agoYes. OAuth dialogs don't load and the graph API is down too.
- montag 12y agoSign in with Facebook is down at the moment.
- gprasanth 12y agoGraph API is down: http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture http://graph.facebook.com/zuck/picture
- mts_ 12y agoYeah, it seems to be everything. Also affects the like buttons across the web, see the error on an old TC article here: http://cl.ly/image/2Q3V1X240D12 http://cl.ly/image/2Q3V1X240D12
- gasda 12y agoMaybe it will stay down long enough so sites stop requiring facebook to interact with the site.
- newbrict 12y agoI feel you
- travem 12y agoLooks like Facebook website plugins like the comments on TechCrunch are also unavailable.
- blueskin_ 12y agoReason #12,506 not to use an external site for login.
- cpayne 12y agoI can tell you my website goes down far more frequently (my fault) than Facebook's does
- jacquesm 12y agoSo now you're down when you make a mistake and when facebook makes a mistake.
- feider 12y agothere is a bug in your logic. Correct operator is "or".
- jacquesm 12y agoProgramming use of logical operators and regular speech is not compatible. I agree that this is a bug in the English language but this is a forum, not a computer program.
- partomniscient 12y agoI too would like to deprecate 'or' in favour of 'ior' and 'xor'. Not sure whether A. A. Milne would like it though? Today's unofficial but fun to pronounce related word is "specificity".
- blueskin_ 12y agoI'm having a bit of trouble finding the maintainer. Possibly OED, but they don't have much in the way of API documentation and I still haven't found the revision history for the source to submit a patch.
- grey-area 12y agoThis is just one of the reasons you shouldn't build your business on someone else's platform - others include the possibility that they'll charge you for the service later, cut you out of a relationship with your own customers, shut you down for their own reasons, require you to use their services like a store to the exclusion of all others, copy your idea and crush you by giving it away for free, squeeze your margins until your business is no longer viable, or simply make your business impossible because of indifference to your requirements. That the service may be unreliable and it's one more point of failure is just one of the reasons why it's a bad idea to depend on FB (or Twitter, or G+ login) for your logins, and this is why their attempt to subsume the web with corporate corrals will ultimately fail.
- mjburgess 12y agoWhat are you talking about? Everyone has to depend on some infrastruture to provide their service. I'd imagine pretty much every hosting platform (from amazon to dreamhost) has less reliability than facebook.
- jacquesm 12y agoSure, but the more external components you tie in to the bigger the chance that one of them will be down. So you try to keep such dependencies to an absolute minimum otherwise you end up with the joint downtime of all those services.
- mjburgess 12y agoNo, that's not how risk works. Centralization of services to a single platform is more risky.
- akkishore 12y agoYour risk increases with more moving parts that you introduce into your product. It does not decrease. Probably you are talking about redundancy where, I agree, it does go down.
- homakov 12y agoThis is another reason why OAuth should be on a separate subdomain. (First reason is XSS on facebook.com which can grant any permissions to any app.)