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Facebook [Was] Down

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

DannyB writes:

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, @06:59PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 14 2019, @06:59PM (#814376)

    I read an article yesterday of Alexander Borisov making an HTML parser [lexbor.com]. In it was this:

    HTML Specification

    Before we implement the parser, it is necessary to understand which HTML specification we should rely upon.

    There are two HTML specifications:

            WHATWG [whatwg.org]
                    Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft
            W3C [w3.org]
                    A long list of companies

    Naturally, our choice fell on the industry leaders, namely, WHATWG. It's a living standard; these are large companies, each maintaining its own browser or a browser engine.

    UPDATE: Unfortunately, the links don't work if you are located in Russia. Apparently, it's the "echo" of the Telegram throttling attempts by the Man.

    Bold added by me.