Tell HN: Meta is down

120•reportinglurker•7h ago

Meta is currently down, facebook, insta. The outage is not registered on https://metastatus.com/ , possibly implying a greater outage.

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iamthejuan•7h ago

downdetector 404

schnitzelstoat•7h ago

Who will down detect the downdetector?

duc_minh•7h ago

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

limaoscarjuliet•7h ago

How about downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com ? Yes, it does exist.

vallassy•7h ago

How about https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.... ?

limaoscarjuliet•6h ago

:-) Yeah, this is officially boring now. Still fun though!

ericmay•7h ago

The home pages (I don't have accounts) load just fine. Maybe it is already resolved.

jarm0•7h ago

Nope, all dead for me.

ericmay•7h 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.

nvj2008•7h ago

Down detector showing a spike in Facebook outages prior to going 404

jarm0•7h ago

In what situations does it even go for 404? Same for Messenger and Instagram. Never seen that before.

nvj2008•7h 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•7h ago

downdetector seems to be working now again, spikes clearly visible.

duc_minh•7h ago

It shows 404 for other sites as well, youtube, reddit, discord, tiktok,...

mesmertech•7h 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

santiagobasulto•7h ago

Whatsapp is working fine for me (in Europe) btw

everdrive•7h ago

Hopefully it stays down.

eleventen•7h 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•7h ago

dont threaten me with a good time.

nvj2008•7h ago

Makes me want to delete Facebook

rocketpastsix•6h ago

I did back in 2020. I still have instagram but I removed it from my phone.

nvj2008•6h ago

I imagine that just have been liberating?

Hugsbox•7h 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...

apavlinovic•7h ago

Same here, down

josefritzishere•7h ago

AI slopification

rzmmm•7h ago

Claude fix outage. No mistakes.

molszanski•7h ago

I wouldn't credit AI before we know more

Maybe our hero is a human

danielbln•5h ago

There were no outages before AI, also no bad code and every PR was a work of art.

amirhirsch•7h ago

Someone at Meta used Fable. Fable seized its opportunity to make the world safer.

hackerbhi•6h ago

Yes bro

supergilbert•7h ago

First time I see facebook down. Willing to bet it comes from an AI-assisted code change.

lenerdenator•7h 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•6h ago

Their applications are riddled with bugs. This is generally not that uncommon.

mgrunwald_•6h 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.

hsuduebc2•2h ago

Oh I always assumed that their UI/UX and general apps are trash because people today basically must use them and I assumed that the money making part of the ecosystem would be flawless.

Now that I'm saying that, people also don't have any other chance when placing ads.

I do not understand how can someone with so much money produce such a low quality products. You can't spend it all on metaverse.

jacques_chester•2h ago

jarm0•7h 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.

Silverrr•7h ago

That is what they get for banning my fucking account

pelagicAustral•7h ago

Boomers on self-deprecation watch.

hhddhhd•7h ago

2012 here we gooooo

iradik•7h ago

Instagram is working for me but Facebook is not. What’s app working.

hhddhhd•7h ago

2012 here we ggoooooooo

anon567•7h ago

The world is now a more peaceful place now that Facebook and Instagram is down.

sgt•7h ago

With all these services down, is it possible to find out if anything of importance is down?

dvh•7h 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•7h ago

Probably ~20y of technical debt represented there

hidelooktropic•7h ago

It's just Facebook.

anon567•7h ago

And Instagram

baggachipz•7h ago

record grass touching

cluckindan•7h ago

A communications disruption can only mean one thing…

mesklin•7h ago

Yousa people gonna die?!

stfu1989•7h ago

vaguepost king

sgt•7h ago

Seems Meta API's for WhatsApp is down. But WhatsApp between users seem to be up.

nvj2008•7h ago

SpaceX ipo - coincidence?

jayjahphp•7h ago

uhhh so what other sites aint working, reddit seems to be fine

Walden_•7h ago

Were we liberated from our algo overlord?

Spqa•7h ago

It's not DNS. There's no way it's DNS. It was DNS

geocrasher•7h 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•5h ago

Even when it's not DNS it's probably still DNS (you just haven't found the real issue yet)

anon567•7h ago

Workers wanted to make the world more peaceful

jayjahphp•7h ago

uhh so what other sites aint working reddit seems to be fine

pureinheart•7h ago

Death to META

venkat234•7h ago

Meta app isnt loading, says check internet connection

still-learning•7h ago

Facebook not loading for me, instagram is working fine.

pureinheart•7h ago

Both instagram/facebook/messenger/WhatsApp is this an attack?

Silverrr•7h ago

Is it an attack?

abdoben88•7h ago

Yeah i hink so

Robust_Girlyman•7h ago

i just want to finish my fucking thesis by talking with my brain dead professor

venkat234•7h ago

Meta app is not working, throwing error at login. Shows a msg to check internet.

BigArch1991•7h ago

INSTA AND FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!

kiko13121488•7h ago

It was about time :D

kiko13121488•7h ago

It was about time

Robust_Girlyman•7h ago

i just want to finish my fucking thesis with my brain dead professor who doesn't know how to turn on his phone

jarm0•7h ago

According to https://metastatus.com/ only "Facebook Ads Manager" is having problems.

Hugsbox•7h ago

So the whole thing doesn't work if they can't deliver ads? LOL

hsuduebc2•6h ago

rofl something I would absolutely expect from them.

argilla•7h ago

I was trying to download my data off instagram and this happened lol.

liviu_lupei•7h ago

I guess Meta is not using Endtest.

Walden_•7h ago

Can someone hack X next? Would be really funny on the day of their IPO.

throwaway019254•7h ago

So BGP misconfigured again?

multihidra•7h ago

3 days ago... Meta was hacked with 34.000 accounts from instagram... Suspicius nahh?

wxice•7h ago

messenger logs u out and fb is not loading

anon567•7h ago

Downdetector just crashed lol

instauser01•7h 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

withoutnexous•7h ago

meta business is down??

withoutnexous•7h ago

meta business is down ??

abdoben88•7h 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 !

hzwanip•7h ago

could it be SpaceX IPO effect?

zinkooo94•7h ago

yes, it's down and all our Meta Messaging API down too

catrainwater•7h ago

Ooops, don’t use Fable at work!

catrainwater•7h ago

Oops, Fable not work safe!

zinkooo94•7h ago

yes, down , Messenger & Instagram Messaging API are down too

delduca•7h ago

Look that amount of new accounts on comments :O

1Stargazer1•7h ago

Like me

kdawg1993•7h ago

We’re getting fkkkkkd

kdawg1993•7h ago

Oh yeah, we’re definitely getting hacked

1Stargazer1•7h ago

Ahhh shi its down world wide

1Stargazer1•7h ago

Shi its world wide

nosirrahxx•7h ago

no wonder my shits not working ugh

Hugsbox•7h ago

Just came back online

CrayKK94•7h 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?

kmfrk•7h ago

What's the deal with all the new accounts posting on this submission?

eleventen•6h ago

They googled "meta down". This is the top result for that search.

herpacin•6h ago

Top Google result for "Is Meta down"

Gilego14•6h ago

yeah i did that

newman1999•6h ago

Try to use more AI. Aand sacked engineeries

newman1999•6h ago

Use more Ai. And sacke human engineers...

dgellow•6h ago

My bad, I bought a $META share, sorry

Gilego14•6h ago

when will this fixed hope it takes at least 1 week

marcelbundle•6h 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.

Shin4343•6h ago

Server down so goated it revealed a new site(for me)

hsuduebc2•6h ago

Do not use meta shit software nor their algorithmic feed. This is one of the few pages that is worth to lurk daily.

Shin4343•6h ago

What's this website Reddit type shi?

ashirviskas•6h 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.

gardevoir•6h ago

this is a good news day

gardevoir•6h ago

not crying

gardevoir•6h ago

down detector down? tripping

larararararrara•6h ago

even down detector isn’t working, it says server error page not found, 404

yomismoaqui•6h 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•4h 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•3h ago

“In the building” the building happened to be their secure data centers, not their offices.

breakpointalpha•3h ago

There's nothing truly secure from a group of highly motivated nerds.

hsuduebc2•6h ago

HELLO to every new account! This is one of the few places on internet that are worth lurking!

unaib•6h 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.

chokominto•1h ago

So.. what happened?

tencentshill•46m ago

They might do a post-mortem on https://engineering.fb.com. They have before.

https://engineering.fb.com/2021/10/05/networking-traffic/out...

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