▲Someone at Meta used Fable. Fable seized its opportunity to make the world safer.
reply▲Truly. Like an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac staying up at night wondering if there really is a dog.
reply▲It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS
reply▲reply▲Even when it's not DNS it's probably still DNS (you just haven't found the real issue yet)
reply▲yomismoaqui3 hours ago
[-] I remember that time when FB went down and engineers couldn't even enter the building to fix it.
"Sheera Frenkel, a tech reporter for the New York Times, told the BBC part of the reason it took so long to fix was because "the people trying to figure out what this problem was couldn't even physically get into the building" to work out what had gone wrong."
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58800670
I don't understand why "break the door down" wouldn't be the most immediate course of action by a senior engineer in that situation. I'll get my tools.
reply▲“In the building” the building happened to be their secure data centers, not their offices.
reply▲breakpointalpha22 minutes ago
[-] There's nothing truly secure from a group of highly motivated nerds.
reply▲"I'll just do this small release on a Friday before heading out" - thought a software engineer before AI-slopification period. Today it was probably some AI agent which fixed all of the performance issues by deleting everything.
reply▲Look that amount of new accounts on comments :O
reply▲reply▲So the whole thing doesn't work if they can't deliver ads? LOL
reply▲rofl something I would absolutely expect from them.
reply▲Naming things is hard:
if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBForIPhone') >= 0
|| navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBIOS') >= 0
|| navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBAN') >= 0
|| navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FB4A') >= 0) {
classes += 'app ';
}
Probably ~20y of technical debt represented there
reply▲supergilbert4 hours ago
[-] First time I see facebook down.
Willing to bet it comes from an AI-assisted code change.
reply▲lenerdenator4 hours ago
[-] Not sure if that's better or worse than the time in 2021 when they had some sort of glitch that brought down their systems
and locked people out of their data centers.
The market thinks this company is worth over a trillion dollars. Remember that.
Their applications are riddled with bugs. This is generally not that uncommon.
reply▲Ironically, their Ad/Business tools are the worst offenders.
I need to use them but I feel like I'm in a perpetual state of fighting their software.
hsuduebc25 minutes ago
[-] Oh I always assumed that their UI/UX and general apps are trash because people today basically must use them and I assumed that the money making part of the ecosystem would be flawless.
Now that I'm saying that, people also don't have any other chance when placing ads.
I do not understand how can someone with so much money produce such a low quality products. You can't spend it all on metaverse.
Down detector showing a spike in Facebook outages prior to going 404
reply▲In what situations does it even go for 404? Same for Messenger and Instagram. Never seen that before.
reply▲reply▲downdetector seems to be working now again, spikes clearly visible.
reply▲It shows 404 for other sites as well, youtube, reddit, discord, tiktok,...
reply▲A communications disruption can only mean one thing…
reply▲Yousa people gonna die?!
reply▲With all these services down, is it possible to find out if anything of importance is down?
reply▲Seems Meta API's for WhatsApp is down. But WhatsApp between users seem to be up.
reply▲What's the deal with all the new accounts posting on this submission?
reply▲They googled "meta down". This is the top result for that search.
reply▲Top Google result for "Is Meta down"
reply▲So BGP misconfigured again?
reply▲Instagram is working for me but Facebook is not. What’s app working.
reply▲noticed it cause of ad manager, the main facebook site being down is kinda weird tho. I don't remember when was the last time that happened
reply▲Workers wanted to make the world more peaceful
reply▲Whatsapp is working fine for me (in Europe) btw
reply▲My bad, I bought a $META share, sorry
reply▲downdetector 404
reply▲schnitzelstoat4 hours ago
[-] Who will down detect the downdetector?
reply▲reply▲How about downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com ? Yes, it does exist.
reply▲reply▲:-) Yeah, this is officially boring now. Still fun though!
reply▲Let's hope they didn't accidentally lay off any of the people that would be able to take it back online. That would be sooo terrible.
reply▲Meta app is not working, throwing error at login. Shows a msg to check internet.
reply▲The world is now a more peaceful place now that Facebook and Instagram is down.
reply▲pureinheart4 hours ago
[-] Both instagram/facebook/messenger/WhatsApp is this an attack?
reply▲Can someone hack X next? Would be really funny on the day of their IPO.
reply▲yes, down , Messenger & Instagram Messaging API are down too
reply▲My Facebook won’t let me log in say check internet and query error, messenger same, dow detector giving me 404 error code. Mere & Facebook saying no problems there end which is bull obviously. Is this a cyber attack?
reply▲yes, it's down and all our Meta Messaging API down too
reply▲Server down so goated it revealed a new site(for me)
reply▲Do not use meta shit software nor their algorithmic feed. This is one of the few pages that is worth to lurk daily.
reply▲The home pages (I don't have accounts) load just fine. Maybe it is already resolved.
reply▲Nope, all dead for me.
reply▲I just tried again and I can load the home pages for both sites without issues from Ohio in a private Safari window. Don't have a way to upload a screenshot.
reply▲Meta app isnt loading, says check internet connection
reply▲Try to use more AI. Aand sacked engineeries
reply▲Use more Ai. And sacke human engineers...
reply▲Oh yeah, we’re definitely getting hacked
reply▲Were we liberated from our algo overlord?
reply▲Damn i woke up and i found out that meta services are down i think that an attack cause its in the worldwide , WW3? HERE WE GOOOOO !
reply▲HELLO to every new account! This is one of the few places on internet that are worth lurking!
reply▲even down detector isn’t working, it says server error page not found, 404
reply▲down detector down? tripping
reply▲marcelbundle4 hours ago
[-] Bruuhhh, I'm getting cooked because clients think it's our app's fault, and Meta doesn't even update their status page.
What's next? They close bug reporting?
Oh wait... they already did.
could it be SpaceX IPO effect?
reply▲SpaceX ipo - coincidence?
reply▲3 days ago... Meta was hacked with 34.000 accounts from instagram... Suspicius nahh?
reply▲when will this fixed hope it takes at least 1 week
reply▲messenger logs u out and fb is not loading
reply▲no wonder my shits not working ugh
reply▲What's this website Reddit type shi?
reply▲ashirviskas3 hours ago
[-] Better, take a look around. No random mobile focused redesigns to hit a random KPI.
Text only design also invites to focus on the discussion itself. It also has proper moderation.
I was trying to download my data off instagram and this happened lol.
reply▲AI slopification
reply▲Claude fix outage. No mistakes.
reply▲I wouldn't credit AI before we know more
Maybe our hero is a human
There were no outages before AI, also no bad code and every PR was a work of art.
reply▲i just want to finish my fucking thesis with my brain dead professor who doesn't know how to turn on his phone
reply▲Downdetector just crashed lol
reply▲instauser014 hours ago
[-] I thought I was the only one having issues with it I was trying to check if insta was down at the moment or if it was just me
reply▲i just want to finish my fucking thesis by talking with my brain dead professor
reply▲uhhh so what other sites aint working, reddit seems to be fine
reply▲uhh so what other sites aint working reddit seems to be fine
reply▲That is what they get for banning my fucking account
reply▲Hopefully it stays down.
reply▲Could you imagine? I know it won't happen but what if we get a statement that they suffered a catastrophic data loss and full service couldn't be restored for a week or something. It would be a modern miracle.
reply▲rocketpastsix4 hours ago
[-] dont threaten me with a good time.
reply▲Makes me want to delete Facebook
reply▲rocketpastsix4 hours ago
[-] I did back in 2020. I still have instagram but I removed it from my phone.
reply▲I imagine that just have been liberating?
reply▲Wasn't there a multi-day outage some number of years ago? Or at least an entire day, or something like that. People were acting like it was the end of the world. I vaguely remember something like that happening, many moons ago...
reply▲Perhaps it caused a mini baby-boom.
reply▲rocketpastsix4 hours ago
[-] there was. I think it was something with a key at a data center and a DNS config. You would think after that people would have learned to have their own website and POSSE everything outwards, but businesses in particular still think a Facebook/Meta presence is good enough.
reply▲I'm imagining the end of Incredible 2 where Screenslaver's mind control device is destroyed and the populace awakes from their stupor.
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