"Well we brought it back up, but for some reason it's full of racist vitriol and CSAM now."
"Oh, no, it was like that before."
mvdwoord 16 days ago [-]
You must be fun at parties.
7bit 16 days ago [-]
And you don't have any humor.
geek_at 16 days ago [-]
It's sadly true though
ndsipa_pomu 16 days ago [-]
Looking at DownDetector, I suspect a CloudFlare outage as there's some ominous climbing red lines for multiple services.
Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
NobodyNada 16 days ago [-]
DownDetector gives you a graph of the number of people who googled "is XYZ service down" and clicked on a DownDetector link. It's a useful metric, but it also has error, because sometimes users blame the wrong service.
In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.
It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".
ndsipa_pomu 16 days ago [-]
I didn't realise that - thanks for the info. I actually found out just from a breaking news alert on the BBC which is unusual as I usually see tech news elsewhere first.
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nanochess 16 days ago [-]
I don't publish anymore in X, so I don't mind it. And by the number of points, I can see it is pretty obvious no one cares anymore. The owner is giving a great lesson on how to destroy a social network, while alienating the remaining users.
The X doomer posters have the same energy as Facebook doomer posters 15 years ago. I remember watching ycombinator videos talk about how, back in the day, entrepreneurs wanted to create facebook clones because "everybody hates facebook", and the X hate has the same energy in my opinion. There are still too many things like investing or journalism where you just need an X if you want to stay relevant.
hojofpodge 16 days ago [-]
You say this like the Facebook gloom was wrong but I think Meta and the accumulation of other assets were an acknowledgement that fixing Facebook's decline in the important segments wasn't worthwhile.
mostlysimilar 16 days ago [-]
What is "seo.ai" and how do they determine the numbers they publish? I looked and didn't find any methodology or real data, just a bunch of fluff words.
ErroneousBosh 16 days ago [-]
<clarkson>Oh no! Anyway...</clarkson>
justinhj 16 days ago [-]
Are we going to see separate articles on BBC news for each of Cloudflare, Docker, T-Mobile, Verizon, AWS all apparently affected by the same outage? Leading with the CEO's name?
lol of course not.
thejazzman 16 days ago [-]
Can we prepend the owner of every company moving forward?
Hatrix 16 days ago [-]
That would be good for companies that replaced a well known brand name with a single letter.
rationalist 16 days ago [-]
I think you forgot the /s tag (especially since it is an editorialization by the BBC, not the HN submitor). But yeah, the author probably has a motive for doing that.
Gioppix 16 days ago [-]
100% uptime is a social construct.
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"Oh, no, it was like that before."
Currently it looks to me like X, Grok, CloudFlare and AWS are affected.
In this case, both AWS and Cloudflare had high-profile outages within the past few months. So a bunch of people tried to check their Twitter, got an error, and said "huh, I wonder if AWS is down again". Or during yesterday's Verizon outage, DownDetector also showed spikes on AT&T and T-Mobile, presumably from people who forgot what cellular provider they had, were roaming, or maybe were trying to call someone on another network.
It also doesn't help that they normalize the scale of their graphs on the front page. If you click them, you can see that 75k people googled "is X down", while only 200 people googled "is AWS down".
The X doomer posters have the same energy as Facebook doomer posters 15 years ago. I remember watching ycombinator videos talk about how, back in the day, entrepreneurs wanted to create facebook clones because "everybody hates facebook", and the X hate has the same energy in my opinion. There are still too many things like investing or journalism where you just need an X if you want to stay relevant.
lol of course not.