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It's much worse today than I have ever seen it before.  I am in San Francisco now, but usually I am in Vancouver... wonder if maybe that makes a difference.

Ohh, my Facebook url just changed back to facebook.com, not new.facebook.com

I think everything should smoothen out after the DNS changes are final. Everything is running smooth for me now. Facebook is starting to feel like home again! Woot!

Last edited by DesignerMichael (2008-10-04 14:12:42)

open command prompt do a ipconfig /flushdns hit enter.

Oh my god, this is ridiculous...

I have to switch back and forth between apps.facebook.com and apps.new.facebook.com every 5 minutes to access my app... My users are also complaining! From last weeks platform slowdown and crash... To this! !!!

Last edited by DesignerMichael (2008-10-04 22:33:09)

Add this to your hosts file:

69.63.178.19 apps.facebook.com

Instead of waiting for Facebook to fix their DNS

same, this is weak

Think this is not gonna have consequences?  Guess what application is not working...

VOTE FOR CHANGE

The page you requested was not found.

You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive.

* Return home

* Go back to the previous page

The registration deadline this MONDAY for many states in the US.  Not good, especially for a campaign with such power on this Platform.

linademartinez wrote:

Think this is not gonna have consequences?  Guess what application is not working...

VOTE FOR CHANGE

The page you requested was not found.

You may have clicked an expired link or mistyped the address. Some web addresses are case sensitive.

* Return home

* Go back to the previous page

The registration deadline this MONDAY for many states in the US.  Not good, especially for a campaign with such power on this Platform.

This has been announced by Facebook for 1-2 weeks, remove the .new subdomain and it works fine.

I blogged about this here: http://staynalive.com/articles/2008/10/ … rl-change/ - note that Techmeme still hasn't recognized this as news (not that they catch much real news anyway).

it's definitely not very cool of facebook to remove the apps.new subdomain without warning.

they should at least have had a crossover period of redirecting from apps.new to apps. (i.e. the inverse of what they were doing during the preview phase).

Also, why pick a weekend (when many of us aren't around to help our users out) to make such a drastic (and unannounced) change?

Last edited by mikep (2008-10-06 09:38:58)

mikep wrote:

it's definitely not very cool of facebook to remove the apps.new subdomain without warning.

they should at least have had a crossover period of redirecting from apps.new to apps. (i.e. the inverse of what they were doing during the preview phase).

Also, why pick a weekend (when many of us aren't around to help our users out) to make such a drastic (and unannounced) change?

This was their warning from Sept 24th

Switching over api.facebook.com
Sep 24, 2008 3:35pm

As the final users switch over to the new facebook site, we are going to transition the url scheme back to facebook.com from new.facebook.com. With this change, we are also going to stop supporting the old api currently hosted on api.facebook.com.

Starting next week, api.facebook.com and api.new.facebook.com will both host the new api. Going forward we will continue to mirror api.new.facebook.com for ease of use.

For details on migrating applications to the new api, see http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/ind … tion_Guide for more details.

linademartinez wrote:

Totally agree with you Francis. But what good is it if users have no idea?


Update sent to over two MILLION Obama supporters just this Saturday:

URGENT: Registration Deadline
Sat 1:37pm

The registration deadline in many states is MONDAY. You don't have any time to waste. In order to vote in this year's election, you need to get registered now.

http://apps.new.facebook.com/obama

If you're already registered, take the time to remind your friends in key states. Every single vote is going to matter this fall.

http://apps.new.facebook.com/obama/recruit

Remind your Facebook friends and get registered today!

Thats horrible, I think I got lucky by seeing that.  But usually when I see such reports I just act upon them knowing that bugs will occur when they say they will continue to use a work around.  But its horrible for that application to use those links :S

I guess I never noticed the DNS issue because I am using a backup DNS provider in case mine would ever crash or pages don't load.  You guys should use something like OpenDNS and setup redundancy.