Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger Are Down for Many (theverge.com) 30
Instagram, WhatsApp, and Facebook Messenger are down for many right now. From a report: More than 123,000 users have reported issues with Instagram on DownDetector. More than 23,000 users have reported issues with WhatsApp on DownDetector, too, and the service is down for one Verge staffer's family, who is based in Europe. Facebook Messenger seems to be affected as well, with more than 5,000 reports of problems on DownDetector. When navigating to Instagram's website, I saw a white page with the message "5xx Server Error." And when I redownloaded Instagram to my phone and tried to log in, I hit an error there, too.
Oh boy (Score:3, Funny)
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Yea too many People seem to become too reliant on Entertainment Software.
It is annoying how we havn't improved Tier to Tier communication where we don't need to go to a middle man, or at least spend so much time with such middle man.
Back in them old days before firewalls were popular, we had the talk protocol in which I use to talk to my friends at a different college by just talk login_name@servername It was just PC to PC communication.
Granted today with firewalls this is much harder to to maintain, and
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you probably also opened some ... other ports to ... finger each other. right?
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unzip; strip; touch; finger; grep; mount; fsck; more; yes; fsck; fsck; umount; sleep
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I'm not sure I would classify it as entirely entertainment. Some people actually use WhatsApp for real communication.
Who cares? (Score:1)
Instagram, Whatsapp, and Facebook Messanger down (Score:5, Informative)
... And nothing of value was lost.
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I'd give you the funny mod if I could, though the joke could have been stronger. Maybe something like "and the world became a better place for it".
(And it was much better than the AC FP squalor. Probable incel.)
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I use Signal, so if it wasn't for Slashdot I wouldn't even know.
Other interesting news (Score:2)
Inexplicably, telecommute productivity has measurably increased - up as much as 40% today, by some measures!
Obligitory (Score:1, Redundant)
"And nothing of value was lost..."
This keeps happening (Score:2)
In other news... (Score:1)
In other news, productivity is up 300%.
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Ha, funny, but not, people are probably just sitting there refreshing the page.
If only this moment... (Score:2)
...Could last forever...
In further news (Score:3)
Health care professionals report an unexpected sharp decline in new patient visits and the Business Council reports record productivity gains for the quarter.
Is it? (Score:2)
Oh no! (Score:4, Funny)
Panic at the disco! Facebook is down. Whatever will people with their lives when they can't communicate with anyone?
How to increase shareholder value (Score:2)
Oddly enough, Facebook stock was up over four percent today, reaching a new ninety day high. Not kidding here.
Slashdot, this is not ASCII art.
In other news: productivity is up this afternoon (Score:1)
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YAY (Score:1)
I wonder how many of them have a screen name... (Score:1)
I don't use any of them (Score:1)
If only they stayed down... (Score:2)