Facebook is down (09:08AM PDT Aug 1, 2014)

For what it&#x27;s worth, stock is down too:<p><a href="http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/charts?symbol=US:FB#{&quot;zRange&quot;:&quot;2&quot;,&quot;startDate&quot;:&quot;2014-7-27&quot;,&quot;endDate&quot;:&quot;2014-8-1&quot;,&quot;chartStyle&quot;:&quot;mountain&quot;,&quot;chartCursor&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;scaleType&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;yaxisAlign&quot;:&quot;right&quot;,&quot;mode&quot;:&quot;pan&quot;}" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;investing.money.msn.com&#x2F;investments&#x2F;charts?symbol=US:...</a>

Facebook beta is still up: <a href="https://beta.facebook.com/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;beta.facebook.com&#x2F;</a>

Anybody notice their IPV6 address?<p>2a03:2880:2110:df07:face:b00c

In an oddly fortunate coincidence, I switched PortableApps.com to using custom static social sharing buttons yesterday afternoon to speed the site up. It&#x27;s worked very well.<p>The only tradeoff is losing the Facebook like button (which is kind of useless on web pages these days anyway) and the like&#x2F;tweet counts. The upside is lightning-fast loading (just image links) as well as increased privacy for your visitors. The buttons use a single Javascript function to bring up a centered window about the size of the standard social sharing widgets using the sharing URL so the functionality is about the same.<p>It isn&#x27;t an entirely new idea as I&#x27;ve seen a few different writeups on it online. My solution is based on ideas from a few different online sources as well as my own custom images and tweaks. I&#x27;m planning on implementing it as a standard Drupal module posted on Drupal.org for my own sites and including options for faded and grayscale buttons to better blend with alternate themes and not grab too much attention from content. I could probably put together a quick set of code and throw it on Github as well if people are interested in just using the raw code or working up a WordPress module for it.

And all the companies that decided to rely on Facebook Login for their website take a breath and think &#x27;oh fuuudge&#x27;.

When I submitted <a href="http://www.facebook.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.facebook.com</a>, it redirected me back to the previous outage link because the URL is the same: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7914905" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7914905</a><p>I added a random URL string to have HN recognize this as a new entry. Perhaps it&#x27;s a good idea to allow re-posting the same link for certain URLs so that &quot;XYZ is down&#x2F;having issues&quot; type posts aren&#x27;t deemed as duplicates?

&quot;Increased errors&#x2F;latency on all Platform surfaces&quot; <a href="https://developers.facebook.com/status/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;</a>

Typical this happens when I&#x27;m pushing fixes to our facebook integration app a friday evening. First I thought it was me hitting request throttling limits...

As someone who doesn&#x27;t use Facebook I&#x27;m always fascinated by these threads because they show how much some people depend on Facebook (or at least addicted to it).

From the developers page:<p>21 minutes ago Increased errors&#x2F;latency on all Platform surfaces<p>Facebook is currently experiencing an issue that is affecting all API and web surfaces. Our engineers detected the issue quickly and are working to resolve it ASAP. We&#x27;ll update shortly.

Time to go for a nice long walk to the lake. This unscheduled get-up-and-move break brought to you by Facebook. Thanks!<p>I&#x27;ve been trying to check on several advertising campaigns and add a new one to no avail. Nothing to do but wait (or work on other stuff).

Maybe it&#x27;s another experiment to see what type of stuff we post after an outage.

Funny that this is how I find out fb&#x27;s ipv6 has their name in it (pinging their url)... :)<p>2a03:2880:2040:7f01:face:b00c:0:1

I just noticed it too: <a href="http://veb.co.nz/cloud/public.php?service=files&amp;t=ce5fc7ac6ad1bca08c593307ed7e6d40" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;veb.co.nz&#x2F;cloud&#x2F;public.php?service=files&amp;t=ce5fc7ac6a...</a><p>Note: I&#x27;m in New Zealand, and I still can&#x27;t access it.<p>Sorry about the screenshot I still haven&#x27;t figured out how to share images <i>directly</i> via ownCloud.

..and US productivity is up...

<a href="http://twitter.com/YourAnonNews/status/495249974377340928" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;YourAnonNews&#x2F;status&#x2F;495249974377340928</a><p><i>We can neither confirm nor deny that #Anonymous had anything to do with #Facebook disruption today, nothing to see here ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)</i>

it would be interesting know the technical reasons.

Down in Germany. The developer status page is down for me too<p><a href="https://developers.facebook.com/status/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;developers.facebook.com&#x2F;status&#x2F;</a>

Its amazing that the world is still turning even when Facebook is down. Hmm...<p>I noticed that I had trouble logging on yesterday around 4pm. I wonder what&#x27;s going on.

Maybe it won&#x27;t come back up

<a href="https://i.imgur.com/984NIEs.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;984NIEs.png</a>

It&#x27;s back up: 12:23 EDT

Looks like the service is coming back online now. Every other request works at this point.

Facebook is up. They did not mention anything on their Twitter page.

VKontakte (Russian facebook) was down a couple of days ago...

It&#x27;s back up now as of 09:22AM PDT. 14 minute downtime.

Oh! Thank God!

Please don&#x27;t use facebook. it is bad for you.

WW3 imminent.

something went reary wrong

same in bulgaria

Fixing,improving,adding or just it was hacked????

FB is fixing, adding,improving or just it was hacked???

This affects germany as well...

It is still down for me as well.