HACKER Q&A
📣 MrYellowP

What's Wrong with the Internet?


FaceBook is down.

My friend from Slovenia is having trouble with discord. It eats his messages.

I can't load photos from my friend in telegram and the messages take a relatively long time - multiple seconds! - to get received.

TrackMania players have talked about having input lag.

ycombinator is really slow and reports an error after submitting. "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" (5th try now, got "unexpected link" now)

Some sites I've found via google results seem to report that they are suffering from slow connections.

Do you have anything to add to this?


  👤 LinuxBender Accepted Answer ✓
Bad BGP updates. Give it time, the Internet will reach homeostasis. This would be a good time for everyone not in FB's network engineering team to go out for a walk or catch up on a good book.

👤 Huhty
There's no option to "Log off" the internet, like we had in the 90s. Now even my fridge is always connected.