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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by suyash on Monday October 04, 2021 @02:57PM (#28750698)
or it could be a malicious attack? I doubt most facebook users even know what HN is.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by flutas on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:01PM (#28750728)
> The HN community seems to congregate here for updates causing higher than usual traffic.

IMO it's probably a lot of us tech workers watching in awe of what's going on when a big tech company craps itself.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by rplnt on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:09PM (#28750759)
But all HN users know what Facebook is. And outage of this scale is rare and interesting.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by tuke on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:18PM (#28750873)
What is Facebook?
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by ed_elliott_asc on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:24PM (#28750937)
The beginning of the end of humanity
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by peakaboo on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:31PM (#28751037)
Its a daycare center for young adults. They grow up eventually.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by ChrisMarshallNY on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:00PM (#28751347)
> Its a daycare center for young adults.

Actually, my experience with FB (I have an account, but don't spend much time, there), is that it is packed with grayhairs, like me.

I think the younger folks have other venues they frequent.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by 130e13a on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:16PM (#28751522)
This is definitely the correct take. I fall into the 18-24 demographic and I don't think I've used Facebook at all in the past 3-4 years. Neither does anyone else I know who is my age.

This is essentially a reverse network effect: because so few young people are on the platform, few other young people see a reason to use it.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by tapas73 on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:49PM (#28751907)
Also when parents and grandparents join, kids start to leave.
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by aabbcc1241 on Monday October 04, 2021 @08:57PM (#28754321)
Interesting relationship
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @06:40AM (#28757615)
In the US, at least, this is definitely the case.

We like to throw anyone over 40 into the skip (especially in the tech industry).

It has caused some issues.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by jen20 on Monday October 04, 2021 @11:16PM (#28755141)
Are we talking the company or the user base here?
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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @05:21AM (#28757058)
Good point.

The company does have a fairly young, highly-paid, workforce.

I assumed the user base.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by gkoberger on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:05PM (#28750732)
No, but most HN users know what Facebook (and WhatsApp and Instagram) are.

That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by nottorp on Monday October 04, 2021 @04:08PM (#28751431)
DNS lookups are certainly slower for random sites. I just opened an about zero traffic site that i hadn't gone to in a while (so dns not cached). It took a while (10 seconds?) to load the first time. Insta load the second time.

This seems to happen for .com but not other TLDs so maybe .com is getting hammered?

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by blendergeek on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:21PM (#28750897)
> That being said, I've seen theories that certain non-FB sites are slow just because DNS lookups are so backed up.

I have been getting a Hacker News error message more often then usual today. So I don't think it is just DNS.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by shadowgovt on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:18PM (#28750866)
Most Facebook users don't know what HN is, but most HN users have Facebook accounts and will migrate here for the dopamine-inducing refresh clicks (don't let them try to claim otherwise ;) ).

If most Facebook users knew what HN was and congregated here when FB was down, the site would be utterly crushed.

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Re:Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today? by djmips on Monday October 04, 2021 @03:00PM (#28750717)
It doesn't have to be 'most' facebook users.
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