What's the point of a status page if it goes down too?<p><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/status/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.facebook.com/status/</a>
This is a very interesting event for the world: on a rough estimate, almost half a billion people are displaced right now. Where are all those man-minutes going to, now that facebook is down and they're not facing that iconic blue header bar on their browser?<p>The downtime will surely end and it'll be back up again for sure, facebook has very smart people behind it, but this event will have served as a very interesting 'accidental' social experiment. Honestly, I'm not that interested on what happened technically, but I'm interested what effect it had socially for the common man outside the techcrunch/HN/reddit/tech bubble.<p>On-topic: does facebook have a consolidated status page?
The statement most news sites are reporting is:<p>“Earlier this morning, we experienced an issue that prevented people from posting to Facebook for a brief period of time. We resolved the issue quickly, and we are now back to 100%. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused,”
Maybe they are trying out their new switches. <a href="http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-switch-and-it-looks-a-lot-like-a-server/" rel="nofollow">http://gigaom.com/2014/06/18/facebook-has-built-its-own-swit...</a>
Has anyone noticed on the Error page now, copyright is 2013?
(<a href="http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/" rel="nofollow">http://postimg.org/image/byry6bj9p/</a>)
Reposting this from my own "Facebook is down" thread because this one has more visibility:<p>pi@pi ~ $ curl -I <a href="http://facebook.com/" rel="nofollow">http://facebook.com/</a><p>HTTP/1.1 503 No server is available for the request<p>Server: proxygen<p>Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8<p>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 07:54:55 GMT
Connection: close<p>Content-Length: 2131
This could just be a coincidence but it seems that Spotify is bugging out, I am able to open the program but it wont play any music. I authenticate with Facebook so maybe that has something to do with it.
Graph API seems down, but part of the API is still up. <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/status/" rel="nofollow">https://developers.facebook.com/status/</a>
The least they could do is fix the date on the footer. :/ I have an app that shares tweets to Facebook <a href="http://2fb.me" rel="nofollow">http://2fb.me</a> so don't "LIKE" what's happening
It is up for me now, but there are still a lot of bugs. Most likely their database cluster is being partitioned. My newest feed was liked by some of my friends even though I can't see it in my timeline or newsfeeds :)
Follow status updates on Facebook's downtime on <a href="http://twitter.com/facebook" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/facebook</a>? #fail
This is the first time I'm seeing FB down. Usually I would just assume my internet connection suck but this time, FB is agreeing that they are down.
Yes, I can confirm that it is indeed down from here too (Wales, UK). That is a pretty big 'down'.<p>Like and follow buttons affected too.<p>Network error on the App.
Same at Turkey.
<a href="http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-yasiyor/" rel="nofollow">http://webrazzi.com/2014/06/19/facebook-teknik-bir-problem-y...</a>
Actually looks like that; I am getting the following message:<p>Sorry, Something went wrong.<p>We're working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.<p>Go Back<p>Edit - This is India reporting.
How many submissions do we need on this topic?<p>Maybe I'm jaded because I don't really "get" the whole social network phenomena, but honestly, who really cares anyway? Productivity will (briefly) go up; a few people dependant on FB SSO's wont be able to log into some other pointless services and the internet will continue to function.<p>I normally down vote people when they say "what does <i>xyz</i> have to do with HN?", but 3 submissions commenting on a procrastination portal being down is really scraping the barrel.<p>[edit]<p>I see the submissions have now been consolidated. That makes much more sense. Good work HN admins :)
Facebook was down? That's fantastic!
Hopefully people looked up from their devices and:
a) listened to birdsong
b) amazed at flowers and plants
c) initiated a conversation with someone in physical proximity
d) enjoyed what was going on instead of trying to snap a photo of it for facebook
e) all of the above
or
f) kept hitting "reload"...