Facebook Down?

Love the status page right now. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;dashboard&#x2F;</a><p>PS. Instagram app&#x2F;site, whatsapp.com, messenger.com, oculus.com also down, anything else?<p>UPDATE: Everything back up! (Even the status page)

We&#x27;re obviously going to take this opportunity to dunk of facebook because it&#x27;s funny, but let&#x27;s not forget that there are some valuable cultural assets that facebook hosts, with groups such as &quot;Foods with threatening auras&quot; and &quot;Animals in predicaments.&quot;<p>I long ago tamed the facebook engagement algorithm by simply unfollowing everything and everyone except these legitimate, useful types of entertainment venues.

Perhaps society can rebuild if this continues.

I hope they get FB back up and running within the end of the year, otherwise I may actually start missing it.

How on earth does EVERYTHING go down like this? It just seems unfathomable to me. Where is the single point of failure?

Likely not related, but you can imagine that they are quite busy these days with two unplanned projects:<p>1. Retooling the underpinnings of their ad analytics to survive iOS14. Big advertisers are about to lose a lot of their insights into attribution, partially directly related to the new limitations of iOS14, and partially due to assumptions that Facebook had made about tracking and which are no longer accurate and require a big rewrite.<p>2. Building an internal Shopify to allow customers to click on ads and complete transactions without ever leaving their app. This already exists but is practically unusable and nowhere close to the polish of Shopify.

I&#x27;m getting two different error pages with the same &quot;Sorry, something went wrong. We&#x27;re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can&quot; message.<p>One has the older site look, copyright 2020, the other has the newer FB5 look, copyright 2021.<p>The logo is not loading on either page.<p>Part of me wonders if they discovered a big&#x2F;new hole that led to the data leak, although Instagram being down too suggests maybe there&#x27;s something happening behind the load balancers?

Someone moved fast.

I thought they banned me. Retried in an incognito window.<p>Time to enjoy a brief social media pause, thanks to the deity who might have been behind this!

Required clip:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wZ6ZlRnS40s?t=12" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;wZ6ZlRnS40s?t=12</a>

Love to see it. I hate this company.

To be a fly on the wall at Facebook HQ right now...

Weird that people almost celebrating in this thread? Facebook is a tool like any other and is only &#x27;bad&#x27; if you allow that to happen.

Downdetector is a bit more useful than facebook.com for this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downdetector.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;facebook&#x2F;</a>

Of course the first time in months I&#x27;ve used any of Facebook API services, and they go down mid-implementation.

I wish wholeheartedly that it stays down for a long-long time, long enough to loose it&#x27;s relevance.

And of course Instagram tells me, &quot;No Internet Connection&quot;<p>Like you couldn&#x27;t connect to your server dude, don&#x27;t pass the blame on!

Dupe: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26743971" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=26743971</a>

Perhaps they had to patch some critical vulnerability like the one that exposed 533M personal records and did the right thing by pressing the red button™

Why this outage doesn&#x27;t happen to twitter

This has to be one of those rare HN instances where a <i>popular</i> site has gone down and people are actually happy..<p>I can’t think of another such instance..

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;4&#x2F;8&#x2F;22374499&#x2F;facebook-instagram-outage-down" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2021&#x2F;4&#x2F;8&#x2F;22374499&#x2F;facebook-instagra...</a>

In Denmark right now, everything down. Was on the phone with someone (in the US) through Messenger without issues. Hung up and tried to send them a message and nothing. Instagram non-functional as well.

Anyone else get a login request email from Instagram before it went down?<p>I got one, immediately logged in separately and changed my password, logged back in, then shortly after everything went down...

Oh dear. Mark Zuckerbergs website, photo gallery and his SMS messenger are down.<p>Time to use something that doesn&#x27;t scan your photo book, address book, and ultimately; everything about YOU.

I&#x27;m guessing this has do something with the recent graph api scraping?<p>Facebook is kinda rude now, they probably adding api bot detection and more phone number verification.

Quickly, let your FB engineering friends know. If their status page is down, their monitoring may be down as well and they&#x27;re none the wiser.

mbasic.facebook.com was also down in New Zealand. Thought it was a company firewall issue at first, but checked <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downforeveryoneorjustme.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;downforeveryoneorjustme.com&#x2F;</a> and confirmed that it&#x27;s happening to others.

Same here, shows: &quot;Sorry, something went wrong.<p>We&#x27;re working on getting this fixed as soon as we can.&quot;

Anyone knows what might have caused the outage? Someone working in data centers might have a clue.

Black hawk down... hmm not this one. Blue bird down.. not again.. ohh yea facebook is down :)

I hope they publish a postmortem.

It was down for sure for me. I am in Los Angeles area. Error occurred message.

I can&#x27;t tell if it&#x27;s down or not because I block it at the router.

Everything up and working again (in Thailand at least), that was fast

Productivity around the world likely increased while this lasted.

The website is still down for me, I&#x27;m in San Francisco.

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and Whatsapp sites all down

Looks like facebook auth is still working?

I once accidentally knocked out 65K websites during a &quot;fix update&quot;. Back then I was mortified. Now, I just feel like that was amateur hour...

It&#x27;s back!

Any bets on what happened? Fat Fingers?

There&#x27;s a page saying something is wrong, which could just be a very efficient summary feature for the site, that is working as intended.

Now stay down.

Quickly, let’s get shit done!

It&#x27;s working for me now.

germany&#x2F;berlin also outage of all fb services using http protocol

Berlin. Facebook is down.

Down in Austria as well.

Whatsapp is also down!

Back up on Tenerife

Could this have anything to do with the recent data breach?

How long before the riots and total societal breakdown?

Yay!<p>Oh noes

Back up

Yea

And nothing of value was lost

down it Italy as well

Hope it&#x27;s down forever!

real talk can any facebook employees remind me how to get to the IRC chats

Down in Australia as well

and its back

Yup, getting oauth errors.

Also instagram, but not whatsapp

Whoa. Wonder what on earth is going on. Can confirm here in Canada, FB and Messenger are both down.

I don&#x27;t understand how can you allow this to happen? I get one platform being down, but for all of your platforms to be down is not a good sign.<p>I only realized now that I only used Facebook platforms to communicate with my friends, and guess what I cannot reach them by Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp.<p>So I am downloading Signal... I mean come on, you are literally loosing users because of this...