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Re:Meta outage by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @12:58PM (#39606954)
> It's not going to tell you which part of your service is inaccessible.

Scroll up the thread a bit; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39605354

Even here on HN, where people should know better, people take its incorrect attribution as useful info. TikTok isn't down. X isn't down. Google isn't down.

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Re:Meta outage by rimunroe on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @01:41PM (#39607557)
I would completely agree that people are bad at interpreting Down Detector-type results, but that doesn't mean it isn't providing a very useful signal.
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Re:Meta outage by jajko on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:46PM (#39608338)
Indeed I haven't noticed any blip in functionality, but then again I don't ever do FB (or other external service) login. Absolutely no reason to do so, long term drawbacks are too serious to be lazy about this.
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