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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by toast0 on Friday October 08, 2021 @01:43PM (#28801928)
HN tends to slow down when there are very active discussion threads. The FB is down threads died down quite a bit when their site came back online. The threads for FB is back online had much sparser discussion.

There's not a whole lot of mystery here.

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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by Permit on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:13PM (#28803667)
Those threads weren't particularly active. They aren't even the most active threads in the last month: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...

That said, I can't claim that those threads didn't have more readers than other threads. But I can't say they they did either.

It also seems uniquely interesting that some people experienced the slowness but others did not.

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Re:What happened on the Internet during the Facebook outage by toast0 on Friday October 08, 2021 @04:42PM (#28803951)
If you loaded in private browsing (or logged out), HN was speedy as normal. If you're like me, from time to time you accidentally sign out and don't notice it until much later.
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