"Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome"<p>With Facebook products, you see outages in December and May. Why? Those are the last few weeks to complete your project before your performance review. Miss this window and you find yourself in career trouble. Facebook employees put a tremendous amount of pressure on themselves during these months.<p>I would not be surprised if this outage was caused by a bad pull request related to a new project.
It's not only Facebook, a lot of services, Deezer, some operators in France... <a href="https://downdetector.fr/" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.fr/</a>
This red "major outage" status has been reported on their dashboard since at least Dec 2, when an (unrelated to messenger) api bug was introduced that I've been waiting on a fix for.<p>It has been surprisingly slow to get a fix or an update.
It looks like they've had issues for a while now. 'December 2nd' ? "
Invalid Page Welcome Message for Messenger Destination Ads"<p>- The thought of 'ads' in a private messaging app repulses me. I don't use any of these three apps. Mostly since they all require you hand over your mobile phone number. Which then becomes a very powerful 'foreign key'/unique identifier to so many other third or fourth-party marketing databases which might also have it.
Messenger is currently unusable on both web and mobile.<p>edit - reports of Instagram and Whatsapp being affected too:<p><a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/10/outages-reported-across-facebook-services/" rel="nofollow">https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/10/outages-reported-across...</a>
Whatsapp is extremely dominant in my country, but I keep encouraging friends and acquaintances to install Telegram. As far as I know, there won't be anything preventing FB from geoblocking European users when the company eventually gets in some serious trouble, like it just did in the US.
The subject of the antitrust suits filed against Facebook came up in a Facebook comment thread for me yesterday.<p>Some guy piped up and stated, essentially, that "Zuckerberg is too rich and too big and nothing will happen.". He evidently had never heard of Standard Oil or Ma Bell.
As of 12:31 PM eastern on December 10, the status page does show "Major Outage," but it had been showing that related to a totally separate Messenger issue since the 2nd.
Update: looks like most services are accessible again<p><a href="https://downdetector.fr" rel="nofollow">https://downdetector.fr</a>
Mark Zuckerberg Outside "Senators see how many lives and business depends on Messenger" ?<p>Mark Zuckerberg Inside "Fak how many advertisement money and user data we lost due to this outage."