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Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

131 points by kiyoto 12y ago

thisjepisje 12y ago
WW3 imminent.
kitbrennan 12y ago
Facebook beta is still up: https://beta.facebook.com/ https://beta.facebook.com/
- alexleclair 12y ago
  That's an interesting link!
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  Never knew they had a beta site - but I can't see anything different. Is there a list of differences somewhere?
bbfc 12y ago
something went reary wrong
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s7an4o 12y ago
same in bulgaria
kiyoto 12y ago
When I submitted http://www.facebook.com http://www.facebook.com, it redirected me back to the previous outage link because the URL is the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 I added a random URL string to have HN recognize this as a new entry. Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates?
- codemaster3000 12y ago
  Definitely sounds like a good idea. Man, there are so many improvements I wish HN would make, but everytime I see a good idea, it gets completely ignored, downvoted into oblivion, or removed by the mods.
- DanBC 12y ago
  > Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates? It would be a much much better idea if people stopped posting "X IS DOWN!!!!" submissions.
  - kiyoto 12y ago
    I agree that it is not the most intellectually interesting. But HN, for better and worse, has evolved to be one of the front pages of the Internet (at least for certain demographics), and some people do come here for transient, immediate information. In that sense, I don't think it is entirely useless. Also, sometimes "X is down" type of submissions can start conversations interesting in their own right in the comment section.
    - DanBC 12y ago
      Maybe they should be limited to a single account? Currently there are at least eight threads about FB. And isn't the interesting discussion during the post-mortem?
  - ealexhudson 12y ago
    I mostly agree, but I find it vaguely interesting that a service as large and distributed can still have a "down for significant numbers of people"-type event.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  How necessary are those posts though? A link to a site that is down is practically useless. A link to a blog post about the current status or a post mortem is very useful.
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- sp332 12y ago
  Facebook employees have posters that say "Move fast and don't be afraid to break things". I don't think anyone's getting fired. http://www.aghanomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ZuckPic1.png http://www.aghanomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ZuckPic...
  - iLoch 12y ago
    They changed their motto to "move fast with stable infrastructure" - so someone is probably getting fired. (I'm only kidding, but if someone were to get fired, making the homepage globally unavailable for 24 minutes seems like a good way to make that happen.)
- tzakrajs 12y ago
  That isn't the culture around there. I am pretty sure anyone worth their stripes on product engineering has probably cost the company significant downtime in the past.
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sp332 12y ago
"Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces" https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
- martin_ 12y ago
  Now the status page is down too! Awesome
  - sp332 12y ago
    It's intermittent, try reloading.
    - JohnTHaller 12y ago
      I think it's fully down now.
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      - kaeawc 12y ago
        Seems to be consistently back up.
m_coder 12y ago
It is still down for me as well.
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crazymom81 12y ago
Fixing,improving,adding or just it was hacked????
olivermarks 12y ago
..and US productivity is up...
- zeeed 12y ago
  except for HN where the post is #1 right now. This is beyond my understanding. What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? (this is not an attempt to troll, it's a serious question)
  - aaronem 12y ago
    Quite nearly a billion daily active users, for a start.
  - the_french 12y ago
    facebook is a huge tech company much on the scale of google. People are curious because it's like watching Goliath trip himself and fall down.
  - intopieces 12y ago
    As others have mentioned in this post, Facebook is used as a log in for many other websites and services. Whatever your personal feeling is about Facebook, it's an integral aspect of user interaction with websites far outside of its native social network platform. For this reason, the condescending guffaws are out of place.
    - zeeed 12y ago
      thanks for the reply. I indeed had not considered the login-aspect of it. I'm not working in the website/online service business (and neither do I use facebook) so this helps me understand better. For the rest, I added a clear note.
  - kalleboo 12y ago
    > What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? 829 million daily active users on average in June 2014 Earth population, 7.046 billion (2012) They have a LOT of users. Any platform supporting that traffic is interesting to see how it fails.
tzakrajs 12y ago
https://i.imgur.com/984NIEs.png https://i.imgur.com/984NIEs.png
- isaacdl 12y ago
  Offtopic, but what's that Chrome theme? It looks really nice and clean.
afro88 12y ago
Down in Germany. The developer status page is down for me too https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/
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film42 12y ago
Looks like the service is coming back online now. Every other request works at this point.
JohnTHaller 12y ago
And all the companies that decided to rely on Facebook Login for their website take a breath and think 'oh fuuudge'.
- ratsimihah 12y ago
  Hahah, indeed! Same goes for FB APIs. But it applies to anybody who uses third-party APIs, no biggie.
- ChickeNES 12y ago
  Yup, Tinder is not working for me.
  - Jokester 12y ago
    Has it ever? ;)
- CGamesPlay 12y ago
  After Facebook took down the Internet last time, they updated all of the script snippets that they have and added an "async" attribute to them. The functionality is still missing when FB goes down, but the site you're looking at still loads quickly.
  - JohnTHaller 12y ago
    I switched all of my social sharing widgets to static image buttons that bring up simple sharing windows just yesterday. My site loads so much faster and is completely unaffected by Facebook being down as a result.
    - agwa 12y ago
      Plus, you're protecting your visitors' privacy by not leaking to Facebook/Twitter/etc. that they visited your site. Thanks for doing this!
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veb 12y ago
I just noticed it too: http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&t=ce5fc7ac6ad1bca08c593307ed7e6d40 http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&t=ce5fc7ac6a... Note: I'm in New Zealand, and I still can't access it. Sorry about the screenshot I still haven't figured out how to share images directly via ownCloud.
gearoidoc 12y ago
Maybe it's another experiment to see what type of stuff we post after an outage.
jontro 12y ago
Typical this happens when I'm pushing fixes to our facebook integration app a friday evening. First I thought it was me hitting request throttling limits...
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qwerta 12y ago
VKontakte (Russian facebook) was down a couple of days ago...
jgrahamc 12y ago
As someone who doesn't use Facebook I'm always fascinated by these threads because they show how much some people depend on Facebook (or at least addicted to it).
- kalleboo 12y ago
  Facebook has nearly 10% of the global population as monthly active users. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? I bet you also don't even own a TV.
  - jgrahamc 12y ago
    I bet you also don't even own a TV. That's true. I got rid of TV five years ago. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? Fascinated, not surprised.
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- dm2 12y ago
  It probably broke a lot of websites people were working on, that's the only reason I noticed it.
- JohnTHaller 12y ago
  Some websites, unfortunately for them, decided to forgo traditional logins and rely entirely on Facebook for user logins. As a result, they've been down the last 20 minutes.
- cenhyperion 12y ago
  It's a business concern for a lot of us, and not only those of us using OAuth as an option for login. We use facebook pretty heavily for marketing and advertising.
beta29a 12y ago
https://beta.facebook.com/ https://beta.facebook.com/ is up
dark_ph0enix 12y ago
From the developers page: 21 minutes ago Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We'll update shortly.
sreyaNotfilc 12y ago
Its amazing that the world is still turning even when Facebook is down. Hmm... I noticed that I had trouble logging on yesterday around 4pm. I wonder what's going on.
- netman21 12y ago
  The world has a lot of momentum. Give it time.
- cliveowen 12y ago
  If I hadn't seen this submission I wouldn't have even noticed it.
- kalleboo 12y ago
  > Its amazing that the world is still turning even when Facebook is down. Hmm... I had to switch to LINE to continue a chat I had going on with a friend. Highly disruptive to my workflow.
resca79 12y ago
it would be interesting know the technical reasons.
- babuskov 12y ago
  AFAIK they are changing the way 3rd party applications are integrated with FB, using a special set of user IDs for each app, and other privacy related changes which will limit the amount of user information apps get. It's a completely new system and probably tested on smaller user base than the entire FB. My guess is that it went into production worldwide today.
  - martydill 12y ago
    You are right on the money with regards to the changes, but the timeline is a bit off. All FB apps created after April 30 automatically get all the new stuff (whether they want it or not). Existing apps have April 2015 to switch to the new system. So, the outage is probably unrelated to to the new stuff. Source: I'm a FB app developer who is seriously affected by the Login and Graph API 2.0 changes.
lihorne 12y ago
It's back up now as of 09:22AM PDT. 14 minute downtime.
bzmwillemsen 12y ago
It's back up: 12:23 EDT
- JohnTHaller 12y ago
  Nope. Still down at 12:28pm EST. I think they managed to get some regions working for a bit. And the beta site is working. But it still just shows the error page for me here on Time Warner Cable in NYC. Not too concerned as I don't use Facebook for anything critical.
  - bzmwillemsen 12y ago
    Back down for me in Toronto. 12:37 EDT Edit: Back up (again) at 12:54 EDT
- benburton 12y ago
  It's a huge pet peeve of mine when people use EST when we're in daylight savings time. This, presumably, should be 12:23 EDT. Also, it's not back up.
  - Aqueous 12y ago
    The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.
    - benburton 12y ago
      Sure, me too. However, using the incorrect abbreviation (and thereby referencing incorrect timestamps) is certainly not going to have any positive effects on the situation.
      - bzmwillemsen 12y ago
        Sorry, like many I barely recognize daylight savings. But this is super off-topic now.
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l0c0b0x 12y ago
For what it's worth, stock is down too: http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=US:FB#{"zRange":"2","startDate":"2014-7-27","endDate":"2014-8-1","chartStyle":"mountain","chartCursor":"1","scaleType":"0","yaxisAlign":"right","mode":"pan"} http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=US:...
- cj 12y ago
  As is the NASDAQ https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=1&chfdeh=0&chdet=1406923200000&chddm=1173&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:FB&cmptdms=0&q=INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC&ntsp=1&ei=_MLbU6iwMYGiigK-nIHgCw https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
  - istsehrgut 12y ago
    allll red.
canterburry 12y ago
Oh! Thank God!
robomartin 12y ago
Time to go for a nice long walk to the lake. This unscheduled get-up-and-move break brought to you by Facebook. Thanks! I've been trying to check on several advertising campaigns and add a new one to no avail. Nothing to do but wait (or work on other stuff).
bthrn 12y ago
Anybody notice their IPV6 address? 2a03:2880:2110:df07:face:b00c
- nitinics 12y ago
  They do have interesting infrastructure v6 prefixes too. >> snip << 5 be2.bb01.iad3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::6b8) 37.323 ms 37.332 ms 37.326 ms 6 be13.bb02.frc3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::16c0) 37.669 ms 27.980 ms 27.878 ms 7 ae61.dr02.frc3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::653) 27.525 ms 25.989 ms 25.871 ms 8 po1022.csw07c.frc3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::1b75) 26.741 ms 27.965 ms 27.875 ms 9 * * * 10 edge-star6-shv-07-frc3.facebook.com (2a03:2880:2130:7f07:face:b00c:0:1) 25.823 ms 24.916 ms 24.799 ms
jnoland 12y ago
Facebook is up. They did not mention anything on their Twitter page.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Facebook © 2014 · Help Definitely down for me. Good thing I don't have a FB account.
simme_ 12y ago
This affects germany as well...
p00b 12y ago
Funny that this is how I find out fb's ipv6 has their name in it (pinging their url)... :) 2a03:2880:2040:7f01:face:b00c:0:1
- p1mrx 12y ago
  You should try my Chrome extension; it makes IP addresses easily discoverable: https://ipvfoo.googlecode.com/ https://ipvfoo.googlecode.com/
JohnTHaller 12y ago
In an oddly fortunate coincidence, I switched PortableApps.com to using custom static social sharing buttons yesterday afternoon to speed the site up. It's worked very well. The only tradeoff is losing the Facebook like button (which is kind of useless on web pages these days anyway) and the like/tweet counts. The upside is lightning-fast loading (just image links) as well as increased privacy for your visitors. The buttons use a single Javascript function to bring up a centered window about the size of the standard social sharing widgets using the sharing URL so the functionality is about the same. It isn't an entirely new idea as I've seen a few different writeups on it online. My solution is based on ideas from a few different online sources as well as my own custom images and tweaks. I'm planning on implementing it as a standard Drupal module posted on Drupal.org for my own sites and including options for faded and grayscale buttons to better blend with alternate themes and not grab too much attention from content. I could probably put together a quick set of code and throw it on Github as well if people are interested in just using the raw code or working up a WordPress module for it.
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malloreon 12y ago
Please don't use facebook. it is bad for you.
Istof 12y ago
Maybe it won't come back up
- samstave 12y ago
  A man can dream.
godgod 12y ago
Dear god. Not facebook! What are we going to do without facebook.com.
crazymom81 12y ago
FB is fixing, adding,improving or just it was hacked???
robin_reala 12y ago
http://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/495249974377340928 http://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/495249974377340928 We can neither confirm nor deny that #Anonymous had anything to do with #Facebook disruption today, nothing to see here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

131 points by kiyoto 12y ago

thisjepisje 12y ago

WW3 imminent.

kitbrennan 12y ago

Facebook beta is still up: https://beta.facebook.com/ https://beta.facebook.com/

alexleclair 12y ago
That's an interesting link!
k-mcgrady 12y ago
Never knew they had a beta site - but I can't see anything different. Is there a list of differences somewhere?

bbfc 12y ago

something went reary wrong

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s7an4o 12y ago

same in bulgaria

kiyoto 12y ago

When I submitted http://www.facebook.com http://www.facebook.com, it redirected me back to the previous outage link because the URL is the same: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905 I added a random URL string to have HN recognize this as a new entry. Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates?

codemaster3000 12y ago
Definitely sounds like a good idea. Man, there are so many improvements I wish HN would make, but everytime I see a good idea, it gets completely ignored, downvoted into oblivion, or removed by the mods.
DanBC 12y ago
> Perhaps it's a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that "XYZ is down/having issues" type posts aren't deemed as duplicates? It would be a much much better idea if people stopped posting "X IS DOWN!!!!" submissions.
- kiyoto 12y ago
  I agree that it is not the most intellectually interesting. But HN, for better and worse, has evolved to be one of the front pages of the Internet (at least for certain demographics), and some people do come here for transient, immediate information. In that sense, I don't think it is entirely useless. Also, sometimes "X is down" type of submissions can start conversations interesting in their own right in the comment section.
  - DanBC 12y ago
    Maybe they should be limited to a single account? Currently there are at least eight threads about FB. And isn't the interesting discussion during the post-mortem?
- ealexhudson 12y ago
  I mostly agree, but I find it vaguely interesting that a service as large and distributed can still have a "down for significant numbers of people"-type event.
k-mcgrady 12y ago
How necessary are those posts though? A link to a site that is down is practically useless. A link to a blog post about the current status or a post mortem is very useful.

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sp332 12y ago
Facebook employees have posters that say "Move fast and don't be afraid to break things". I don't think anyone's getting fired. http://www.aghanomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ZuckPic1.png http://www.aghanomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ZuckPic...
- iLoch 12y ago
  They changed their motto to "move fast with stable infrastructure" - so someone is probably getting fired. (I'm only kidding, but if someone were to get fired, making the homepage globally unavailable for 24 minutes seems like a good way to make that happen.)
tzakrajs 12y ago
That isn't the culture around there. I am pretty sure anyone worth their stripes on product engineering has probably cost the company significant downtime in the past.

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sp332 12y ago

"Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces" https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/

martin_ 12y ago
Now the status page is down too! Awesome
- sp332 12y ago
  It's intermittent, try reloading.
  - JohnTHaller 12y ago
    I think it's fully down now.
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    - kaeawc 12y ago
      Seems to be consistently back up.

m_coder 12y ago

It is still down for me as well.

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crazymom81 12y ago

Fixing,improving,adding or just it was hacked????

olivermarks 12y ago

..and US productivity is up...

zeeed 12y ago
except for HN where the post is #1 right now. This is beyond my understanding. What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? (this is not an attempt to troll, it's a serious question)
- aaronem 12y ago
  Quite nearly a billion daily active users, for a start.
- the_french 12y ago
  facebook is a huge tech company much on the scale of google. People are curious because it's like watching Goliath trip himself and fall down.
- intopieces 12y ago
  As others have mentioned in this post, Facebook is used as a log in for many other websites and services. Whatever your personal feeling is about Facebook, it's an integral aspect of user interaction with websites far outside of its native social network platform. For this reason, the condescending guffaws are out of place.
  - zeeed 12y ago
    thanks for the reply. I indeed had not considered the login-aspect of it. I'm not working in the website/online service business (and neither do I use facebook) so this helps me understand better. For the rest, I added a clear note.
- kalleboo 12y ago
  > What is it about a FB service outage that makes it so important? 829 million daily active users on average in June 2014 Earth population, 7.046 billion (2012) They have a LOT of users. Any platform supporting that traffic is interesting to see how it fails.

tzakrajs 12y ago

https://i.imgur.com/984NIEs.png https://i.imgur.com/984NIEs.png

isaacdl 12y ago
Offtopic, but what's that Chrome theme? It looks really nice and clean.

afro88 12y ago

Down in Germany. The developer status page is down for me too https://developers.facebook.com/status/ https://developers.facebook.com/status/

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film42 12y ago

Looks like the service is coming back online now. Every other request works at this point.

JohnTHaller 12y ago

And all the companies that decided to rely on Facebook Login for their website take a breath and think 'oh fuuudge'.

ratsimihah 12y ago
Hahah, indeed! Same goes for FB APIs. But it applies to anybody who uses third-party APIs, no biggie.
ChickeNES 12y ago
Yup, Tinder is not working for me.
- Jokester 12y ago
  Has it ever? ;)
CGamesPlay 12y ago
After Facebook took down the Internet last time, they updated all of the script snippets that they have and added an "async" attribute to them. The functionality is still missing when FB goes down, but the site you're looking at still loads quickly.
- JohnTHaller 12y ago
  I switched all of my social sharing widgets to static image buttons that bring up simple sharing windows just yesterday. My site loads so much faster and is completely unaffected by Facebook being down as a result.
  - agwa 12y ago
    Plus, you're protecting your visitors' privacy by not leaking to Facebook/Twitter/etc. that they visited your site. Thanks for doing this!
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veb 12y ago

I just noticed it too: http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&t=ce5fc7ac6ad1bca08c593307ed7e6d40 http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&t=ce5fc7ac6a... Note: I'm in New Zealand, and I still can't access it. Sorry about the screenshot I still haven't figured out how to share images directly via ownCloud.

gearoidoc 12y ago

Maybe it's another experiment to see what type of stuff we post after an outage.

jontro 12y ago

Typical this happens when I'm pushing fixes to our facebook integration app a friday evening. First I thought it was me hitting request throttling limits...

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qwerta 12y ago

VKontakte (Russian facebook) was down a couple of days ago...

jgrahamc 12y ago

As someone who doesn't use Facebook I'm always fascinated by these threads because they show how much some people depend on Facebook (or at least addicted to it).

kalleboo 12y ago
Facebook has nearly 10% of the global population as monthly active users. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? I bet you also don't even own a TV.
- jgrahamc 12y ago
  I bet you also don't even own a TV. That's true. I got rid of TV five years ago. You're surprised that people are dependant on it? Fascinated, not surprised.
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dm2 12y ago
It probably broke a lot of websites people were working on, that's the only reason I noticed it.
JohnTHaller 12y ago
Some websites, unfortunately for them, decided to forgo traditional logins and rely entirely on Facebook for user logins. As a result, they've been down the last 20 minutes.
cenhyperion 12y ago
It's a business concern for a lot of us, and not only those of us using OAuth as an option for login. We use facebook pretty heavily for marketing and advertising.

beta29a 12y ago

https://beta.facebook.com/ https://beta.facebook.com/ is up

dark_ph0enix 12y ago

From the developers page: 21 minutes ago Increased errors/latency on all Platform surfaces Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We'll update shortly.

sreyaNotfilc 12y ago

Its amazing that the world is still turning even when Facebook is down. Hmm... I noticed that I had trouble logging on yesterday around 4pm. I wonder what's going on.

netman21 12y ago
The world has a lot of momentum. Give it time.
cliveowen 12y ago
If I hadn't seen this submission I wouldn't have even noticed it.
kalleboo 12y ago
> Its amazing that the world is still turning even when Facebook is down. Hmm... I had to switch to LINE to continue a chat I had going on with a friend. Highly disruptive to my workflow.

resca79 12y ago

it would be interesting know the technical reasons.

babuskov 12y ago
AFAIK they are changing the way 3rd party applications are integrated with FB, using a special set of user IDs for each app, and other privacy related changes which will limit the amount of user information apps get. It's a completely new system and probably tested on smaller user base than the entire FB. My guess is that it went into production worldwide today.
- martydill 12y ago
  You are right on the money with regards to the changes, but the timeline is a bit off. All FB apps created after April 30 automatically get all the new stuff (whether they want it or not). Existing apps have April 2015 to switch to the new system. So, the outage is probably unrelated to to the new stuff. Source: I'm a FB app developer who is seriously affected by the Login and Graph API 2.0 changes.

lihorne 12y ago

It's back up now as of 09:22AM PDT. 14 minute downtime.

bzmwillemsen 12y ago

It's back up: 12:23 EDT

JohnTHaller 12y ago
Nope. Still down at 12:28pm EST. I think they managed to get some regions working for a bit. And the beta site is working. But it still just shows the error page for me here on Time Warner Cable in NYC. Not too concerned as I don't use Facebook for anything critical.
- bzmwillemsen 12y ago
  Back down for me in Toronto. 12:37 EDT Edit: Back up (again) at 12:54 EDT
benburton 12y ago
It's a huge pet peeve of mine when people use EST when we're in daylight savings time. This, presumably, should be 12:23 EDT. Also, it's not back up.
- Aqueous 12y ago
  The existence of daily savings time - and time zones - is a huge pet peeve for me.
  - benburton 12y ago
    Sure, me too. However, using the incorrect abbreviation (and thereby referencing incorrect timestamps) is certainly not going to have any positive effects on the situation.
    - bzmwillemsen 12y ago
      Sorry, like many I barely recognize daylight savings. But this is super off-topic now.
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l0c0b0x 12y ago

For what it's worth, stock is down too: http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=US:FB#{"zRange":"2","startDate":"2014-7-27","endDate":"2014-8-1","chartStyle":"mountain","chartCursor":"1","scaleType":"0","yaxisAlign":"right","mode":"pan"} http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=US:...

cj 12y ago
As is the NASDAQ https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&chvs=maximized&chdeh=1&chfdeh=0&chdet=1406923200000&chddm=1173&chls=IntervalBasedLine&cmpto=NASDAQ:FB&cmptdms=0&q=INDEXNASDAQ:.IXIC&ntsp=1&ei=_MLbU6iwMYGiigK-nIHgCw https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chdd=1&chds=1&chdv=1&...
- istsehrgut 12y ago
  allll red.

canterburry 12y ago

Oh! Thank God!

robomartin 12y ago

Time to go for a nice long walk to the lake. This unscheduled get-up-and-move break brought to you by Facebook. Thanks! I've been trying to check on several advertising campaigns and add a new one to no avail. Nothing to do but wait (or work on other stuff).

bthrn 12y ago

Anybody notice their IPV6 address? 2a03:2880:2110:df07:face:b00c

nitinics 12y ago
They do have interesting infrastructure v6 prefixes too. >> snip << 5 be2.bb01.iad3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::6b8) 37.323 ms 37.332 ms 37.326 ms 6 be13.bb02.frc3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::16c0) 37.669 ms 27.980 ms 27.878 ms 7 ae61.dr02.frc3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::653) 27.525 ms 25.989 ms 25.871 ms 8 po1022.csw07c.frc3.tfbnw.net (2620:0:1cff:dead:beef::1b75) 26.741 ms 27.965 ms 27.875 ms 9 * * * 10 edge-star6-shv-07-frc3.facebook.com (2a03:2880:2130:7f07:face:b00c:0:1) 25.823 ms 24.916 ms 24.799 ms

jnoland 12y ago

Facebook is up. They did not mention anything on their Twitter page.

jacquesm 12y ago
Sorry, something went wrong. We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can. Go Back Facebook © 2014 · Help Definitely down for me. Good thing I don't have a FB account.

simme_ 12y ago

This affects germany as well...

p00b 12y ago

Funny that this is how I find out fb's ipv6 has their name in it (pinging their url)... :) 2a03:2880:2040:7f01:face:b00c:0:1

p1mrx 12y ago
You should try my Chrome extension; it makes IP addresses easily discoverable: https://ipvfoo.googlecode.com/ https://ipvfoo.googlecode.com/

JohnTHaller 12y ago

In an oddly fortunate coincidence, I switched PortableApps.com to using custom static social sharing buttons yesterday afternoon to speed the site up. It's worked very well. The only tradeoff is losing the Facebook like button (which is kind of useless on web pages these days anyway) and the like/tweet counts. The upside is lightning-fast loading (just image links) as well as increased privacy for your visitors. The buttons use a single Javascript function to bring up a centered window about the size of the standard social sharing widgets using the sharing URL so the functionality is about the same. It isn't an entirely new idea as I've seen a few different writeups on it online. My solution is based on ideas from a few different online sources as well as my own custom images and tweaks. I'm planning on implementing it as a standard Drupal module posted on Drupal.org for my own sites and including options for faded and grayscale buttons to better blend with alternate themes and not grab too much attention from content. I could probably put together a quick set of code and throw it on Github as well if people are interested in just using the raw code or working up a WordPress module for it.

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malloreon 12y ago

Please don't use facebook. it is bad for you.

Istof 12y ago

Maybe it won't come back up

samstave 12y ago
A man can dream.

godgod 12y ago

Dear god. Not facebook! What are we going to do without facebook.com.

crazymom81 12y ago

FB is fixing, adding,improving or just it was hacked???

robin_reala 12y ago

http://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/495249974377340928 http://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/495249974377340928 We can neither confirm nor deny that #Anonymous had anything to do with #Facebook disruption today, nothing to see here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)