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posted by chromas on Thursday March 14 2019, @12:02PM   Printer-friendly
from the downtime-as-a-public-service dept.

Facebook appears to be down.

A link for this submission? Really? But it is down, as in not working. Error 5 - something went wrong.

[chromas adds] From VOA:

Instagram is back up after suffering a partial outage for more than several hours, the photo-sharing social network platform said in a tweet, but its parent Facebook Inc.'s app still seemed to be down for some users around the globe.

Certain users had trouble in accessing widely used Instagram, Whatsapp and Facebook apps earlier Wednesday, in one of the longest outages faced by the company in the recent past.

[...] A Facebook spokesman confirmed the partial outage, but did not provide an update. The social networking site had issues for more than 12 hours, according to its developer's page.

Facebook took to Twitter to inform users that it was working to resolve the issue as soon as possible and confirmed that the matter was not related to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:30PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:30PM (#814173)

    I'm speculating too, but I'm going in the direction that some devops moron deployed broken code into production.

    So Facebook has no QA tests for code deployments? Or what are you suggesting?

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:45PM

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:45PM (#814187) Homepage Journal

    I'm speculating

    Or is your reading comprehension that poor?

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:50PM (1 child)

    by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Thursday March 14 2019, @01:50PM (#814188) Homepage Journal

    And it's happened before. Perhaps not at Facebook, but at plenty of other places.

    Someone does something stupid and thinks they're in test when they're in production. It happens more often than you might think.

    And what part of "speculating" didn't you understand?

    Or haven't you had your coffee yet?

    --
    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:40PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @03:40PM (#814258)

      Internal changes were the issue; blame inexperienced outsourced people following strict instructions that did not work. They in turn blamed employees because factually, they did what they were told to do and repeatedly pressing the button still didn't work. So they logged out and did something else and waited for someone to reply to emails about the issues they encountered. The next shift had no idea what was going on and also found that pressing the button still didn't work.

      I always wanted to be an IT guy in India. It seems so blameless and easy.