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Facebook Is Down on Web and Mobile in Several Parts of the World

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59 pointsmelvinmt17 comments

A friend of mine is also complaining that Tinder isn't working. I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook.

>> "I guess this is what happens if you built an app on top of Facebook."

True but overall I'm sure Tinder's up time would be lower if they built their own infrastructure. Not to mention the app probably would have been flop without being able to pull in all the Facebook data.

I recently tried Tinder, and naturally I wanted to see what was being sent through from my phone - they seem to query their own server (which in turn likely queries Facebook) every two seconds or less, so if they're constantly in need of new data then caching won't help much. That said, I was unable to see anything and had been signed out - not sure why they didn't persist my auth token.

I think if they were smart they would allow people to sign up without a facebook account.

Forcing people to sign up will just create more fake facebook accounts IMO.

If you signed up without a Facebook account the great features of the app wouldn't work without a lot of effort on the users part. For example it takes all 700 of my Facebook likes, matches them against others, and shows our commons likes (interests). It also shows friends in common and allows me to easily update my pictures (the only pictures I have of myself are ones I've been tagged in on Facebook). You could create a non-Facebook system but I don't think many people would use it and without significant work inputting interests etc. they wouldn't get very good matches.

From #facebook @ freenode:

<StephenS> We're working hard to fix all the issues, we're going to be up in a second.

Oh, I run into a bunch of fb employees in #mercurial. It never ocurred to me that they had their own channel in Freenode.

If I didn't have hacker news to check I wouldn't know what to do...

And then, productivity went up.

And it's up again.

this time beta.facebook.com is also down, from India

What time is the Superbowl?

Something good happened for a change.

Ah, the joy is shortlived.

Just because you don't find any utility in Facebook doesn't mean it has no value.

I guess some people don't really get sarcasm.

Your sarcasm is byte-for-byte identical with many people's honesty, can't really blame someone for not being able to spot the difference :P

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