Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by jonobird1 3334 days ago
It's Facebook. The entire world is practically on the site. So yeah, it is newsworthy.
2 comments
flukus 3334 days ago
What will tomorrow's headlines be? "Popular, non critical website unavailable for several minutes"?
link
bdcravens 3334 days ago
How many startups talked about here use Facebook as a login option? I'd assume that makes their service unavailable for a non-trivial number of users.
link
flukus 3334 days ago
Good point. I suppose that's a valuable lesson in relying on third parties for critical functionality.
link
oblib 3334 days ago
Yeah, FB being down is certainly news, and tech news as well.
link