Facebook's Ads System Suffers Glitch Days Before Black Friday

Yep. When I was at Walmart the code freeze started in early November, with only critical bug fixes going in, then continued until the start of January.

My big company has code freezes and no planned deploys around holidays... Bug fixes are allowed, just need deviations.

That's why you should first have a feature freeze, and after a while go into a code freeze.

Facebook users, as a whole, like the Facebook ads I run for my clients. They click, share, comment and buy the products or services or advertise, which are all pretty solid.

There's almost no where else on the web where my products (SMB services, mostly) can be connected to my customers (business owners) at scale and at a reasonable cost, by the way.

The users were still seeing ads once Facebook, as a site, was back up. Just because campaign managers for ads couldn't use the Ads Manager, doesn't mean users don't see ads. For example, I had campaigns spending thousands of dollars, but I just had to guesstimate the cost because Ads Manager wasn't showing the data. That means I could be underspending or overspending because I couldn't optimize. It's a real headache for ad buyers, but once again, users still see ads.

they probably think it's a good idea because they are able to advertise their product/service to potential customers, thereby increasing their revenue