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▲Tell HN: Meta is down
114 points by reportinglurker 5 hours ago | 126 comments
amirhirsch 4 hours ago [-]
Someone at Meta used Fable. Fable seized its opportunity to make the world safer.
brudlekukk 4 hours ago [-]
Truly. Like an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac staying up at night wondering if there really is a dog.
hackerbhi 4 hours ago [-]
Yes bro
Spqa 4 hours ago [-]
It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS
geocrasher 4 hours ago [-]
The DNS Song seems appropriate. Even if it's not DNS in this case.

https://soundcloud.com/ryan-flowers-916961339/dns-to-the-tun...

cwsx 2 hours ago [-]
Even when it's not DNS it's probably still DNS (you just haven't found the real issue yet)
yomismoaqui 4 hours ago [-]
I remember that time when FB went down and engineers couldn't even enter the building to fix it.

"Sheera Frenkel, a tech reporter for the New York Times, told the BBC part of the reason it took so long to fix was because "the people trying to figure out what this problem was couldn't even physically get into the building" to work out what had gone wrong."

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58800670

breakpointalpha 1 hours ago [-]
I don't understand why "break the door down" wouldn't be the most immediate course of action by a senior engineer in that situation. I'll get my tools.
pstoll 17 minutes ago [-]
“In the building” the building happened to be their secure data centers, not their offices.
breakpointalpha 13 minutes ago [-]
There's nothing truly secure from a group of highly motivated nerds.
jarm0 4 hours ago [-]
"I'll just do this small release on a Friday before heading out" - thought a software engineer before AI-slopification period. Today it was probably some AI agent which fixed all of the performance issues by deleting everything.
delduca 4 hours ago [-]
Look that amount of new accounts on comments :O
1Stargazer1 4 hours ago [-]
Like me
jarm0 4 hours ago [-]
According to https://metastatus.com/ only "Facebook Ads Manager" is having problems.
Hugsbox 4 hours ago [-]
So the whole thing doesn't work if they can't deliver ads? LOL
hsuduebc2 4 hours ago [-]
rofl something I would absolutely expect from them.
dvh 4 hours ago [-]
Naming things is hard:

    if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBForIPhone') >= 0 
    || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBIOS') >= 0 
    || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FBAN') >= 0 
    || navigator.userAgent.indexOf('FB4A') >= 0) {
          classes += 'app ';
        }
1bpp 4 hours ago [-]
Probably ~20y of technical debt represented there
supergilbert 4 hours ago [-]
First time I see facebook down. Willing to bet it comes from an AI-assisted code change.
lenerdenator 4 hours ago [-]
Not sure if that's better or worse than the time in 2021 when they had some sort of glitch that brought down their systems and locked people out of their data centers.

The market thinks this company is worth over a trillion dollars. Remember that.

hsuduebc2 4 hours ago [-]
Their applications are riddled with bugs. This is generally not that uncommon.
mgrunwald_ 3 hours ago [-]
Ironically, their Ad/Business tools are the worst offenders.

I need to use them but I feel like I'm in a perpetual state of fighting their software.

nvj2008 4 hours ago [-]
Down detector showing a spike in Facebook outages prior to going 404
jarm0 4 hours ago [-]
In what situations does it even go for 404? Same for Messenger and Instagram. Never seen that before.
nvj2008 4 hours ago [-]
Yeah strange, maybe too many people hitting down detector at once

Here's an alternate

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook

The domino effect is fascinating to watch

jarm0 4 hours ago [-]
downdetector seems to be working now again, spikes clearly visible.
duc_minh 4 hours ago [-]
It shows 404 for other sites as well, youtube, reddit, discord, tiktok,...
cluckindan 4 hours ago [-]
A communications disruption can only mean one thing…
mesklin 4 hours ago [-]
Yousa people gonna die?!
stfu1989 4 hours ago [-]
vaguepost king
sgt 4 hours ago [-]
With all these services down, is it possible to find out if anything of importance is down?
sgt 4 hours ago [-]
Seems Meta API's for WhatsApp is down. But WhatsApp between users seem to be up.
kmfrk 4 hours ago [-]
What's the deal with all the new accounts posting on this submission?
eleventen 4 hours ago [-]
They googled "meta down". This is the top result for that search.
herpacin 4 hours ago [-]
Top Google result for "Is Meta down"
Gilego14 4 hours ago [-]
yeah i did that
throwaway019254 4 hours ago [-]
So BGP misconfigured again?
baggachipz 4 hours ago [-]
record grass touching
iradik 4 hours ago [-]
Instagram is working for me but Facebook is not. What’s app working.
still-learning 4 hours ago [-]
Facebook not loading for me, instagram is working fine.
mesmertech 4 hours ago [-]
noticed it cause of ad manager, the main facebook site being down is kinda weird tho. I don't remember when was the last time that happened
anon567 4 hours ago [-]
Workers wanted to make the world more peaceful
santiagobasulto 4 hours ago [-]
Whatsapp is working fine for me (in Europe) btw
dgellow 4 hours ago [-]
My bad, I bought a $META share, sorry
iamthejuan 5 hours ago [-]
downdetector 404
schnitzelstoat 4 hours ago [-]
Who will down detect the downdetector?
duc_minh 4 hours ago [-]
https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/
limaoscarjuliet 4 hours ago [-]
How about downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com ? Yes, it does exist.
vallassy 4 hours ago [-]
How about https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... ?
limaoscarjuliet 3 hours ago [-]
:-) Yeah, this is officially boring now. Still fun though!
4 hours ago [-]
liviu_lupei 4 hours ago [-]
I guess Meta is not using Endtest.
unaib 3 hours ago [-]
Let's hope they didn't accidentally lay off any of the people that would be able to take it back online. That would be sooo terrible.
4 hours ago [-]
venkat234 4 hours ago [-]
Meta app is not working, throwing error at login. Shows a msg to check internet.
anon567 4 hours ago [-]
The world is now a more peaceful place now that Facebook and Instagram is down.
pureinheart 4 hours ago [-]
Both instagram/facebook/messenger/WhatsApp is this an attack?
Walden_ 4 hours ago [-]
Can someone hack X next? Would be really funny on the day of their IPO.
zinkooo94 4 hours ago [-]
yes, down , Messenger & Instagram Messaging API are down too
CrayKK94 4 hours ago [-]
My Facebook won’t let me log in say check internet and query error, messenger same, dow detector giving me 404 error code. Mere & Facebook saying no problems there end which is bull obviously. Is this a cyber attack?
hidelooktropic 4 hours ago [-]
It's just Facebook.
anon567 4 hours ago [-]
And Instagram
zinkooo94 4 hours ago [-]
yes, it's down and all our Meta Messaging API down too
Hugsbox 4 hours ago [-]
Just came back online
Shin4343 4 hours ago [-]
Server down so goated it revealed a new site(for me)
hsuduebc2 4 hours ago [-]
Do not use meta shit software nor their algorithmic feed. This is one of the few pages that is worth to lurk daily.
ericmay 5 hours ago [-]
The home pages (I don't have accounts) load just fine. Maybe it is already resolved.
jarm0 5 hours ago [-]
Nope, all dead for me.
ericmay 4 hours ago [-]
I just tried again and I can load the home pages for both sites without issues from Ohio in a private Safari window. Don't have a way to upload a screenshot.
venkat234 4 hours ago [-]
Meta app isnt loading, says check internet connection
4 hours ago [-]
newman1999 4 hours ago [-]
Try to use more AI. Aand sacked engineeries
newman1999 4 hours ago [-]
Use more Ai. And sacke human engineers...
kdawg1993 4 hours ago [-]
Oh yeah, we’re definitely getting hacked
Walden_ 4 hours ago [-]
Were we liberated from our algo overlord?
abdoben88 4 hours ago [-]
Damn i woke up and i found out that meta services are down i think that an attack cause its in the worldwide , WW3? HERE WE GOOOOO !
apavlinovic 4 hours ago [-]
Same here, down
hsuduebc2 4 hours ago [-]
HELLO to every new account! This is one of the few places on internet that are worth lurking!
larararararrara 4 hours ago [-]
even down detector isn’t working, it says server error page not found, 404
gardevoir 4 hours ago [-]
down detector down? tripping
marcelbundle 4 hours ago [-]
Bruuhhh, I'm getting cooked because clients think it's our app's fault, and Meta doesn't even update their status page.

What's next? They close bug reporting?

Oh wait... they already did.

catrainwater 4 hours ago [-]
Ooops, don’t use Fable at work!
hzwanip 4 hours ago [-]
could it be SpaceX IPO effect?
1Stargazer1 4 hours ago [-]
Ahhh shi its down world wide
BigArch1991 4 hours ago [-]
INSTA AND FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!
catrainwater 4 hours ago [-]
Oops, Fable not work safe!
gardevoir 4 hours ago [-]
this is a good news day
nvj2008 4 hours ago [-]
SpaceX ipo - coincidence?
multihidra 4 hours ago [-]
3 days ago... Meta was hacked with 34.000 accounts from instagram... Suspicius nahh?
hhddhhd 4 hours ago [-]
2012 here we ggoooooooo
Gilego14 4 hours ago [-]
when will this fixed hope it takes at least 1 week
kiko13121488 4 hours ago [-]
It was about time :D
1Stargazer1 4 hours ago [-]
Shi its world wide
kiko13121488 4 hours ago [-]
It was about time
wxice 4 hours ago [-]
messenger logs u out and fb is not loading
Silverrr 4 hours ago [-]
Is it an attack?
abdoben88 4 hours ago [-]
Yeah i hink so
nosirrahxx 4 hours ago [-]
no wonder my shits not working ugh
pureinheart 4 hours ago [-]
Death to META
Shin4343 4 hours ago [-]
What's this website Reddit type shi?
ashirviskas 4 hours ago [-]
Better, take a look around. No random mobile focused redesigns to hit a random KPI.

Text only design also invites to focus on the discussion itself. It also has proper moderation.

argilla 4 hours ago [-]
I was trying to download my data off instagram and this happened lol.
gardevoir 4 hours ago [-]
not crying
withoutnexous 4 hours ago [-]
meta business is down ??
withoutnexous 4 hours ago [-]
meta business is down??
josefritzishere 4 hours ago [-]
AI slopification
rzmmm 4 hours ago [-]
Claude fix outage. No mistakes.
molszanski 4 hours ago [-]
I wouldn't credit AI before we know more

Maybe our hero is a human

danielbln 3 hours ago [-]
There were no outages before AI, also no bad code and every PR was a work of art.
pelagicAustral 4 hours ago [-]
Boomers on self-deprecation watch.
hhddhhd 4 hours ago [-]
2012 here we gooooo
Robust_Girlyman 4 hours ago [-]
i just want to finish my fucking thesis with my brain dead professor who doesn't know how to turn on his phone
anon567 4 hours ago [-]
Downdetector just crashed lol
instauser01 4 hours ago [-]
I thought I was the only one having issues with it I was trying to check if insta was down at the moment or if it was just me
Robust_Girlyman 4 hours ago [-]
i just want to finish my fucking thesis by talking with my brain dead professor
jayjahphp 4 hours ago [-]
uhhh so what other sites aint working, reddit seems to be fine
kdawg1993 4 hours ago [-]
We’re getting fkkkkkd
jayjahphp 4 hours ago [-]
uhh so what other sites aint working reddit seems to be fine
Silverrr 4 hours ago [-]
That is what they get for banning my fucking account
everdrive 4 hours ago [-]
Hopefully it stays down.
eleventen 4 hours ago [-]
Could you imagine? I know it won't happen but what if we get a statement that they suffered a catastrophic data loss and full service couldn't be restored for a week or something. It would be a modern miracle.
rocketpastsix 4 hours ago [-]
dont threaten me with a good time.
nvj2008 4 hours ago [-]
Makes me want to delete Facebook
rocketpastsix 4 hours ago [-]
I did back in 2020. I still have instagram but I removed it from my phone.
nvj2008 4 hours ago [-]
I imagine that just have been liberating?
Hugsbox 4 hours ago [-]
Wasn't there a multi-day outage some number of years ago? Or at least an entire day, or something like that. People were acting like it was the end of the world. I vaguely remember something like that happening, many moons ago...
everdrive 4 hours ago [-]
Perhaps it caused a mini baby-boom.
rocketpastsix 4 hours ago [-]
there was. I think it was something with a key at a data center and a DNS config. You would think after that people would have learned to have their own website and POSSE everything outwards, but businesses in particular still think a Facebook/Meta presence is good enough.
xnx 3 hours ago [-]
I'm imagining the end of Incredible 2 where Screenslaver's mind control device is destroyed and the populace awakes from their stupor.
Silverrr 4 hours ago [-]
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