Facebook, Instagram, and Threads Were All Down Today
Meta properties, which includes Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, all experienced a widespread outage this morning.
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Were Down in Major Outage
It's not just you: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Oculus VR are currently down. The Facebook-owned services all use a shared infrastructure and are unreachable in multiple regions since about 11:41 AM eastern time.
Facebook and Instagram Photos Go Down Globally
Facebook was hit with a major outage today as users around the world reported photos not uploading and displaying correctly. The outage also affected Facebook-owned apps such as Instagram and WhatsApp.
The Matador Base Layer is Like a Puffy Down Jacket for Your Camera Gear
Want to protect your camera gear with style? Check out the Matador Camera Base Layer and Lens Base Layer, accessories designed for "adaptive protection for the active photographer." They're essentially puffy down jackets for your cameras and lenses to wear.
Instagram Went Down for 15 Minutes and People Freaked Out
When your photo sharing app is used by hundreds of millions of users around the world, there are a lot of sad and angry people when your service goes down. Instagram crashed for about 15 minutes yesterday -- coincidentally April Fools' Day -- and people freaked out.
Adobe Creative Cloud Is Down, Rendering Apps Unusable… Chat Support Useless
Man down! And by man down, we mean Adobe Creative Cloud. Starting late yesterday afternoon, a number of subscribers to Adobe’s Creative Cloud platform -- myself included -- started noticing that upon trying to use our applications or login to with our Adobe IDs, an error message would appear, deeming the applications and services useless.
Stock Photo Service stock.xchng Down for Days, Users Left in the Dark
There's a slight mystery of sorts taking place in the stock photo community at this time. Stock photo service stock.xchng, reachable at sxc.hu, has been down for days now without reasonable explanation. The website is run by HAAP Media Ltd., a Getty Images subsidiary based in Hungary, and offers free-to-use images and illustrations to the masses.