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Facebook is down

7 points by laxk ↗ HN
Login page doesn't work. A lot of complains on twitter. http://twitter.com/#!/search/facebook%20down

update: It is working for the current opened session. Try logout and login again.

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periram
Works for me. Could it be anonymous's work?
laxk
Try logout/login. Is still working?
samstave
Reboot facebook. Still working?
tomfakes
Its acting funky for me, but not down.

Facebook is so distributed that very few need be inconvenienced by a few failed servers

msahil
yes its down in South Korea as well
wglb
We don't need this sort of posting about social media being down. Please don't do this.
bherms
Agreed that we don't need status updates on whether a social network is down. HOWEVER, in light of the recent threat to takedown Facebook, I think this is a good thing to open for discussion.
wglb
Disagree; I am not particularly interested in that conversation either. I have flagged this posting.
bherms
Not being interested and being inappropriate for discussion by programmers are two different things. Simply because you aren't interested doesn't mean it's irrelevant for hackers to talk about.
wglb
So I am a programmer of long standing and a hacker and I would rather see better articles than this submitted. The best parts of this thread are going to at best add zero to my ability to build something.
laxk
It is not just a social medium, it is the largest social network. It doesn't look like a local problem. It will be interesting to see how Facebook will fix the problems.
solarcanine
Especially the same day as a big software push for their new Messenger app product - be funny if they accidentally DDoSed themselves with the app somehow
suprasanna
The connection was reset is the error I'm repeatedly getting. FF, Safari, Chrome on OS X.

First time FB has been down this widespread?

blinkingled
Something is going on - I have an existing session - with no updates when I was expecting some. Even ignoring that posting status updates just sits there.