[outages] Facebook down?

[Josh Luthman]

Can I point out there has been way more discussion about a topic less
desired then the topic itself?

*duck*

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On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk at gsp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 12:28:07PM -0500, Josh Luthman wrote:
>> Some operations do depend on Facebook.
>
> But why should the rest of us indulge this exceedingly poor choice?
>
> I expect to see traffic on "outages" that discusses Internet/telecom
> infrastructure outages -- that is, fiber cuts, circuit issues, prefix
> snafus, DNS botches, carrier downtime, etc.  I don't expect to see
> traffic about any particular web site, *unless* that traffic is using
> that web site as an example of what the problem is, or as part of a
> symptom report, or to delineate the scope of a problem.  Not Facebook,
> not Google, not Amazon, not eBay -- none of them are important enough
> or will ever be important enough to merit the same level of concern. [1]
>
> Now, I do get that some users out there conflate "Facebook" (or perhaps
> "Google" or some other site) with "the Internet".  That's unfortunate, and
> I really do feel badly for front-line personnel who must deal with these
> people.  But I would rather buy those folks a good bottle of scotch so
> that they can drown their troubles, and keep all that noise off here.
>
> ---rsk
>
> [1] Alright, alright, I have just been elbowed and forced to concede
> that an ICanHazCheeseburger outage is equivalent to the Apocalypse, the
> implosion of the sun, the eruption of all Pacific rim volcanoes, and the
> alignment of all 8...9...8...whatever planets all rolled into one.  Fine.
> Report THAT.  But just that one.
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