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Facebook Unveils Details of Downtime

Posted by timothy on from the you-like-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook officially gave out more technical details on the endless loop in a database control mechanism that forced a 2.5-hour shutdown of the social site, and the resulting combination of a productivity burst, increased fertility (check back on June 25, 2011) and mass hysteria all around the world."

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  1. OH NOES by Pojut · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Meh, it happens...just like a power company, no one says a word when the thing works fine for weeks or months at a time...but when it goes down for a couple hours, people act like it never works.

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    Living With a Nerd
    1. Re:OH NOES by Mitchell314 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But it's a helluva a lot more important for a power company to stay up than FB, no power can cause serious problems. But FB down for two hours, man, the gods forbid you actually are productive or something . . .

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      I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
  2. "mass hysteria"? by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and mass hysteria all around the world.

    [citation needed].

    First I knew was when I read about it on another tech blog, hours after it'd happened...and I use Facebook. And I work with a ton of people who use it (grad students.)

    There wasn't mass hysteria; there was mass ambivalence. I'm now reading all these blog/news postings about how "everyone" went crazy. Nobody was talking about it where I ate dinner. Nobody was talking about it where I had coffee that evening. It didn't make my city newspaper- no "Facebook down, residents in despair" stories to be found.

    All this coverage claiming that everyone went nuts seems like a desperate attempt by Facebook PR to make something positive out of this...namely, trying to convince us that Facebook is so integral to the people who use it, it must, of course, be to us as well.

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    1. Re:"mass hysteria"? by ForexCoder · · Score: 3, Insightful

      [citation needed].

      [citation]

    2. Re:"mass hysteria"? by microbee · · Score: 3, Insightful

      It's a toilet all right, but a very annoying one: you hear every flush coming from your friends' toilet as well.

    3. Re:"mass hysteria"? by neumayr · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Uh. I took the summary as sarcasm of sorts. Which made your reaction seem like quite the overreaction. Then you got +5 Insightful...

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      Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion. -Francis Bacon
  3. Re:Wifey was gutted... I wasn't by Allnighte · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was going to disagree with you until I read one of the Facebook comments on the blog post talking about the error:

    "John Marshall: how do i get job workin with facebook i live in newcastle in uk can any one from facebook staff get or can some one give me a email address that i can use to contact facebook please"

    :|
    very doomed.

  4. Re:Official Technical Details by jdong · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've got a great idea! Why don't we have every slashdot reader go in and try to fix the broken link? Then the problem will correct itself in no time!

  5. The metaphysical reason was karmic payback by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you suck so bad on a global scale long enough, eventually the universe tries to step in.

  6. Farrmville continued to run? by Animats · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Does the clock stop for Farmville if Facebook goes down?