I’ve had no access for the last hour and, “We’re upgrading. We’ll be back soon.” is all that’s on the landing page. Two thoughts:

1) As a Facebook app developer dependent on Facebook reliability, this really sucks, and

2) Facebook should build a more informative and transparent “server down” page.

Update: The outage continues at 11:16am PT, putting this one in the “major” category. (We received our first report that the site was down at 8:58am PT this morning.)

Update: Facebook is back up at 11:30am PT.

Update: We’ve heard several reports of security issues at Facebook overnight. If true, I’m guessing it was more likely a botched push then malicious attack. Since the site has come back online this morning all Facebook links have a tracking code that wasn’t there yesterday, making me think something went awry when Facebook was pushing changes last night.

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12 Responses to “Big outage for Facebook this morning”

  1. i7nvd Says:

    This is driving me nuts! I was right in the middle of a game on the Mafia app when it froze up on me. Post again if you find out what’s going on.

  2. Clark Says:

    I’ve been having problems with logging in since yesterday evening.

  3. Ryan Says:

    This is not good!

  4. John Says:

    11:37 am PST and Facebook is STILL down. they did udate the “server down” page

  5. Derek Says:

    its back up at 2:39 EST

  6. John Says:

    BACK UP !!! @ 11:40am PST

  7. Derek Says:

    is there anything new?

  8. Sla Says:

    it is 15:25 EST and the darn thing won’t come up on my Mac …. ??? any idea when is the upgrade about to finish?

  9. sean Says:

    all day i cannot access it through firefox, and i still cannot, but i have no problem connecting through internet explorer? i get the dumb “we’ll be back soon” msg in firefox, but nothing in IE? wtf

  10. Will Says:

    FB down on Aug 3 now - in Firefox I get “Upgrading back soon…” and in Explorer I get “Incompatible browser…”
    Is FB going down for good by slow degrees?

  11. Will Says:

    But its loading in Safari OK… !

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