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Facebook Is Down on Web and Mobile in Several Parts of the World

59 points by melvinmt 12y ago

maaarghk 12y ago
What time is the Superbowl?
lemieux 12y ago
And then, productivity went up.
andy_ppp 12y ago
If I didn't have hacker news to check I wouldn't know what to do...
pravj 12y ago
this time beta.facebook.com is also down, from India
adnanh 12y ago
From #facebook @ freenode: <StephenS> We're working hard to fix all the issues, we're going to be up in a second.
- jordigh 12y ago
  Oh, I run into a bunch of fb employees in #mercurial. It never ocurred to me that they had their own channel in Freenode.
TimWolla 12y ago
And it's up again.
shivpuri 12y ago
Something good happened for a change.
- shivpuri 12y ago
  Ah, the joy is shortlived.
- colinramsay 12y ago
  Just because you don't find any utility in Facebook doesn't mean it has no value.
  - shivpuri 12y ago
    I guess some people don't really get sarcasm.
    - Shish2k 12y ago
      Your sarcasm is byte-for-byte identical with many people's honesty, can't really blame someone for not being able to spot the difference :P
eyeareque 12y ago
A friend of mine is also complaining that Tinder isn't working. I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  >> "I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook." True but overall I'm sure Tinder's up time would be lower if they built their own infrastructure. Not to mention the app probably would have been flop without being able to pull in all the Facebook data.
  - iLoch 12y ago
    I recently tried Tinder, and naturally I wanted to see what was being sent through from my phone - they seem to query their own server (which in turn likely queries Facebook) every two seconds or less, so if they're constantly in need of new data then caching won't help much. That said, I was unable to see anything and had been signed out - not sure why they didn't persist my auth token.
  - eyeareque 12y ago
    I think if they were smart they would allow people to sign up without a facebook account. Forcing people to sign up will just create more fake facebook accounts IMO.
    - k-mcgrady 12y ago
      If you signed up without a Facebook account the great features of the app wouldn't work without a lot of effort on the users part. For example it takes all 700 of my Facebook likes, matches them against others, and shows our commons likes (interests). It also shows friends in common and allows me to easily update my pictures (the only pictures I have of myself are ones I've been tagged in on Facebook). You could create a non-Facebook system but I don't think many people would use it and without significant work inputting interests etc. they wouldn't get very good matches.

59 points by melvinmt 12y ago

maaarghk 12y ago

What time is the Superbowl?

lemieux 12y ago

And then, productivity went up.

andy_ppp 12y ago

If I didn't have hacker news to check I wouldn't know what to do...

pravj 12y ago

this time beta.facebook.com is also down, from India

adnanh 12y ago

From #facebook @ freenode: <StephenS> We're working hard to fix all the issues, we're going to be up in a second.

jordigh 12y ago
Oh, I run into a bunch of fb employees in #mercurial. It never ocurred to me that they had their own channel in Freenode.

TimWolla 12y ago

And it's up again.

shivpuri 12y ago

Something good happened for a change.

shivpuri 12y ago
Ah, the joy is shortlived.
colinramsay 12y ago
Just because you don't find any utility in Facebook doesn't mean it has no value.
- shivpuri 12y ago
  I guess some people don't really get sarcasm.
  - Shish2k 12y ago
    Your sarcasm is byte-for-byte identical with many people's honesty, can't really blame someone for not being able to spot the difference :P

eyeareque 12y ago

A friend of mine is also complaining that Tinder isn't working. I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook.

k-mcgrady 12y ago
>> "I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook." True but overall I'm sure Tinder's up time would be lower if they built their own infrastructure. Not to mention the app probably would have been flop without being able to pull in all the Facebook data.
- iLoch 12y ago
  I recently tried Tinder, and naturally I wanted to see what was being sent through from my phone - they seem to query their own server (which in turn likely queries Facebook) every two seconds or less, so if they're constantly in need of new data then caching won't help much. That said, I was unable to see anything and had been signed out - not sure why they didn't persist my auth token.
- eyeareque 12y ago
  I think if they were smart they would allow people to sign up without a facebook account. Forcing people to sign up will just create more fake facebook accounts IMO.
  - k-mcgrady 12y ago
    If you signed up without a Facebook account the great features of the app wouldn't work without a lot of effort on the users part. For example it takes all 700 of my Facebook likes, matches them against others, and shows our commons likes (interests). It also shows friends in common and allows me to easily update my pictures (the only pictures I have of myself are ones I've been tagged in on Facebook). You could create a non-Facebook system but I don't think many people would use it and without significant work inputting interests etc. they wouldn't get very good matches.