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So, Facebook was down for quite a while yesterday. Since I’m one of the hip and trendy Facebook haters; I actually didn’t notice for a while. I usually interact with Facebook only when I receive notification emails. Headed over to my profile, saw that the app was broken.
Mild consternation. Muttered a few curses. Ran a few tests. Nope. App really was broken. Then started half an hour of investigation while I upgraded to the newest version of the library and futzed around trying to fix it. Predictably, nothing worked. So I just threw my hands up and figured that Facebook was broken. Went back to work. This morning, things are back to normal again. How fortunate that this is a fun application and my employment or emotional well-being doesn’t exactly depend on it.
Remember that rule about checking your own code before blaming the compiler? Well, this was one of the rare occasions where the compiler (or in this case, the Facebook platform) was at fault.
A tad more concerning though, El Reg is reporting that the outage revealed severe privacy flaws. More details. Where are your privacy controls now?
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