Facebook is down, discuss...
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It probably has nothing to do with a rogue dependency, but this has maybe a 5% chance of fitting what happened (Orig xkcd image xkcd.com/2347/ )
Edit: this is the actual thing that happened: blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-f... It seems that some poor soul at fb issued a bunch of BGP withdrawal updates.
I've updated the pic, bringing it up to maybe a 90% change of being on the money
I thought it was DNS at first, too. It's kinda ironic that it ended up being a BGP problem. It's almost as if Facebook forgot how to be an internet company.
I had a similar thought when I heard about what happened:
months ago: "Hey, did you hear? Bob got fired the other day" - "Bob? What did that guy do here anyway?" now: "Oh."
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As someone who hasn't used Facebook for nearly a decade (makes me feel old not gonna lie), I'm finding the effects of the outage on other people more interesting than the outage itself.
I wonder if anyone who uses these services will realize how much they actual spend on them. Or if they will find they don't really need/want them. (this is especially true for the social media apps)
Odds are most will just go back to their usual usage once its back up tho ;D
I wonder if anyone who uses these services will realize how much they actual spend on them.
Probably the biggest shame of Facebook is how many restaurants, etc. closed down their websites and only have a Facebook. It's a shame bigger than one incident, but it's something to think about.
I think restaurants ditching menus for facebook is a symptom of something larger though. A lot of web dev agencies out there either won't work with projects the size of a restaurant menu, or will way over sell what is needed. Most restaurant's need a handful of static HTML pages to display basic info, something that could be done by a FE dev in less than a day. My first job tried to pitch a massive wordpress build with all kinds of stuff for like $50k to a local restaurant that just needed an online menu.
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I can't blame those small businesses for ditching their costly websites and just throwing an FB page together, cheap and easy does it, and for web devs or agencies there's no money to be made anyway on these small websites, so I'd say win/win situation ...
Why's that a shame if I may ask? As a small/medium size business an FB page seems an easy and practical way to get a web presence with minimal cost and effort - I'd say this is one of the most obvious "real" benefits of FB (most of the other benefits are mainly for the sake of FB's and Marc Z's pockets lol) ...
It's interesting for me because I didn't find out about it for hours since I apparently don't use any Facebook things, with the sole exception of the Quest 2 which requires an account... and as far as I know it was unaffected because it doesn't actually use Facebook in normal running. I gather I'm an exception.
Oh, and I got an email from a friend for the first time in so long it felt like a handwritten letter.
I used it as an opportunity to nag my friends about federated systems.
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