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

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amirhirsch•about 6 hours ago

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

brudlekukk•about 5 hours ago

Truly. Like an agnostic, dyslexic insomniac staying up at night wondering if there really is a dog.

hackerbhi•about 5 hours ago

Yes bro

yomismoaqui•about 5 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•about 3 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•about 2 hours ago

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

breakpointalpha•about 2 hours ago

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

Spqa•about 6 hours ago

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

geocrasher•about 6 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•about 4 hours ago

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

jarm0•about 6 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.

chokominto•21 minutes ago

So.. what happened?

dvh•about 6 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•about 6 hours ago

Probably ~20y of technical debt represented there

delduca•about 6 hours ago

Look that amount of new accounts on comments :O

1Stargazer1•about 6 hours ago

Like me

jarm0•about 6 hours ago

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

Hugsbox•about 6 hours ago

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

hsuduebc2•about 5 hours ago

rofl something I would absolutely expect from them.

supergilbert•about 6 hours ago

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

lenerdenator•about 6 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•about 5 hours ago

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

mgrunwald_•about 5 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.

hsuduebc2•about 2 hours 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.

nvj2008•about 6 hours ago

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

jarm0•about 6 hours ago

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

nvj2008•about 6 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•about 6 hours ago

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

duc_minh•about 6 hours ago

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

cluckindan•about 6 hours ago

A communications disruption can only mean one thing…

mesklin•about 6 hours ago

Yousa people gonna die?!

stfu1989•about 6 hours ago

vaguepost king

sgt•about 6 hours ago

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

sgt•about 6 hours ago

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

kmfrk•about 6 hours ago

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

eleventen•about 5 hours ago

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

herpacin•about 5 hours ago

Top Google result for "Is Meta down"

Gilego14•about 5 hours ago

yeah i did that

throwaway019254•about 6 hours ago

So BGP misconfigured again?

baggachipz•about 6 hours ago

record grass touching

iradik•about 6 hours ago

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

still-learning•about 6 hours ago

Facebook not loading for me, instagram is working fine.

mesmertech•about 6 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•about 6 hours ago

Workers wanted to make the world more peaceful

santiagobasulto•about 6 hours ago

Whatsapp is working fine for me (in Europe) btw

iamthejuan•about 6 hours ago

downdetector 404

schnitzelstoat•about 6 hours ago

Who will down detect the downdetector?

duc_minh•about 6 hours ago

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/

limaoscarjuliet•about 6 hours ago

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

dgellow•about 5 hours ago

My bad, I bought a $META share, sorry

liviu_lupei•about 6 hours ago

I guess Meta is not using Endtest.

unaib•about 5 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.

venkat234•about 6 hours ago

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

anon567•about 6 hours ago

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

pureinheart•about 6 hours ago

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

Walden_•about 6 hours ago

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

zinkooo94•about 6 hours ago

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

hidelooktropic•about 6 hours ago

It's just Facebook.

anon567•about 6 hours ago

And Instagram

CrayKK94•about 6 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?

zinkooo94•about 6 hours ago

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

Hugsbox•about 6 hours ago

Just came back online

ericmay•about 6 hours ago

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

jarm0•about 6 hours ago

Nope, all dead for me.

ericmay•about 6 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.

Shin4343•about 5 hours ago

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

hsuduebc2•about 5 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.

venkat234•about 6 hours ago

Meta app isnt loading, says check internet connection

newman1999•about 6 hours ago

Try to use more AI. Aand sacked engineeries

newman1999•about 6 hours ago

Use more Ai. And sacke human engineers...

kdawg1993•about 6 hours ago

Oh yeah, we’re definitely getting hacked

Walden_•about 6 hours ago

Were we liberated from our algo overlord?

apavlinovic•about 6 hours ago

Same here, down

abdoben88•about 6 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 !

catrainwater•about 6 hours ago

Ooops, don’t use Fable at work!

marcelbundle•about 5 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.

hsuduebc2•about 5 hours ago

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

gardevoir•about 5 hours ago

down detector down? tripping

larararararrara•about 5 hours ago

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

hzwanip•about 6 hours ago

could it be SpaceX IPO effect?

1Stargazer1•about 6 hours ago

Ahhh shi its down world wide

BigArch1991•about 6 hours ago

INSTA AND FACEBOOK IS DOWN!!

catrainwater•about 6 hours ago

Oops, Fable not work safe!

gardevoir•about 5 hours ago

this is a good news day

nvj2008•about 6 hours ago

SpaceX ipo - coincidence?

multihidra•about 6 hours ago

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

hhddhhd•about 6 hours ago

2012 here we ggoooooooo

kiko13121488•about 6 hours ago

It was about time :D

Gilego14•about 5 hours ago

when will this fixed hope it takes at least 1 week

1Stargazer1•about 6 hours ago

Shi its world wide

kiko13121488•about 6 hours ago

It was about time

Silverrr•about 6 hours ago

Is it an attack?

abdoben88•about 6 hours ago

Yeah i hink so

wxice•about 6 hours ago

messenger logs u out and fb is not loading

nosirrahxx•about 6 hours ago

no wonder my shits not working ugh

pureinheart•about 6 hours ago

Death to META

Shin4343•about 5 hours ago

What's this website Reddit type shi?

ashirviskas•about 5 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•about 6 hours ago

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

gardevoir•about 5 hours ago

not crying

withoutnexous•about 6 hours ago

meta business is down ??

withoutnexous•about 6 hours ago

meta business is down??

josefritzishere•about 6 hours ago

AI slopification

rzmmm•about 6 hours ago

Claude fix outage. No mistakes.

molszanski•about 6 hours ago

I wouldn't credit AI before we know more

Maybe our hero is a human

danielbln•about 4 hours ago

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

pelagicAustral•about 6 hours ago

Boomers on self-deprecation watch.

hhddhhd•about 6 hours ago

2012 here we gooooo

Robust_Girlyman•about 6 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•about 6 hours ago

Downdetector just crashed lol

instauser01•about 6 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•about 6 hours ago

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

jayjahphp•about 6 hours ago

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

jayjahphp•about 6 hours ago

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

Silverrr•about 6 hours ago

That is what they get for banning my fucking account

kdawg1993•about 6 hours ago

We’re getting fkkkkkd

everdrive•about 6 hours ago

Hopefully it stays down.

eleventen•about 6 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•about 6 hours ago

dont threaten me with a good time.

nvj2008•about 6 hours ago

Makes me want to delete Facebook

Hugsbox•about 6 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•about 5 hours ago

Perhaps it caused a mini baby-boom.

rocketpastsix•about 6 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•about 5 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.