Hands up, who couldn't post to Facebook today? Oh, MILLIONS of you People have actually started doing proper work this afternoon after Facebook users complained they cannot post status updates on the social network. Many naturally took to Twitter to sound off about the free content ad-network's sudden wobble. The Register asked Facebook to explain what had gone wrong, but for now it is …
"Non-essential website has slight technical problems for while"
This is news? Please don't follow Slashdot's example here (and, yes, they did an "article" on this too).
Sure, if Google crashes worldwide, that's a story. If a tax website breaks and people can't submit tax forms in time, that's a story. But a Facebook "error occurred"? Really? What next, are you going to report every 404 or Internal Server Error?
No website, no matter how big, is 24/7. I wouldn't WANT it to be. It means someone is spending an inordinate amount of money on redundancy and not enough on maintenance / testing.
Seriously, Reg, don't go downhill like Slashdot. I'd expect this to rate minor footnote on the bottom of a recent Facebook article discussing something else entirely, at best.
What are you talking about? One of the most popular websites in the world isn't working, and that's not news?
You don't expect it to be 24/7? Servicing a worldwide userbase? Where are you posting from, the 1980s?
You're not interested, is what you mean. Meanwhile, the rest of us, who are interested in tech news, especially how tech giants function, and fail, are interested. Get over it.
It may surprise you to learn that a lot of people run business via FB as they get access to a potential audience of over a billion people. Creative types like photographers and artists can advertise to people looking for services or images.
So while most of it is full absolute fecking dross, some of it is useful to quite a few people.
I've got a few other forums I can fall back to before I have to do actual work*
Redundancy and backups, dude. Redundancy and backups.
Steven R
*Obviously, I do actually work, like a fiend - I'm just so good at multitasking that I can do four jobs at once and it looks like I'm just jacking around on forums all the time....
My obligatory link for when FaecesBook is down or not working properly:
"Watch the TV? That's the extent of your imagination."
If you're going to refer to one item out of ten listed and conclude that's the extent of my imagination, I'd call that a severe maths fail and suggest you go back to school. If you'd concluded that amounted to ten percent of my imagination, that would at least have made more sense.
As for why I suggested something as lame and unimaginative as watching TV, well, I would have thought the rest of that suggestion, beyond the first three words, is a bit of a clue.
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