After the Pandemic, outage of FB, WhatsApp, and Instagram was observed by many of us. I am curious about what happened last night, what did you do or how did you feel about it ?
by LandR on 10/5/21, 8:14 AM
I didn't know until I happened to read about it on HackerNews.
Nothing in my life changed whatsoever.
by aviral on 10/5/21, 10:56 AM
Not for nothing but in many places — including Israel and Palestine — WhatsApp is used as the de facto phone and text messaging platform. Ostensibly, a utility is down right now for millions of people. The billionth reason to break down and regulate Facebook. - Abraham Gutman
https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1445124247005933573by potta_coffee on 10/5/21, 3:34 PM
I went to BJJ class (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) and had a blast making real friends in meatspace, then laughed when my wife told me about how FB was down when I got home. I gave up on social media years ago, it's toxic trash.
by jstx1 on 10/5/21, 8:31 AM
It's better to just ask people about their experience and not to lead them with the question, not to exaggerate and assume they got disconnected from the world, not to call a website outage a global phenomenon. Otherwise it comes across as manipulative - it's like you're telling people what their experience was and only pretending that you're asking a question.
by sethammons on 10/5/21, 1:33 PM
Near zero impact on my life. Talked with one of my kids about it for a few minutes and about how we almost did the same thing to ourselves a couple of years back. So last night, I worked an hour or so on a pond I'm rehabbing, watched some tv with the wife, and fell asleep rather early so I could wake up early and work out.
by thorin on 10/5/21, 5:26 PM
I did wonder whether it might turn into something more significant, but it didn't. I was also curious about how long it would last, as it was quite a long outage.
I mainly contact my ex wife through WhatsApp and a lot of school/ parent communication goes through there. Some of my social groups are organised through fb.
by mikewarot on 10/7/21, 6:59 AM
I was concerned it might have been the quiet start of WWIII, a cyberattack aimed at a chunk of US infrastructure... I was worried Google and the rest would quickly follow in going offline.
I gave it about a 5% chance of it being that, and 95% of a clusterf*ck at Facebook.
by jamil7 on 10/5/21, 3:02 PM
Hadn’t noticed until I read some news about it this morning, I use HN and occasionally reddit. For messaging I deleted Whatsapp this year and use Telegram, Signal and iMessage.
by thisistesla on 10/5/21, 10:40 AM
Drank too much water. Had to get up thrice to pee.
by runjake on 10/5/21, 7:21 PM
I didn't know they were down at the time because I don't use any of it.
by cpach on 10/5/21, 9:56 AM
I felt a bit restless but it wasn’t really a big thing for me.
by dalmo3 on 10/5/21, 8:42 AM
I felt some discomfort. It may be time to buy a new pillow.