Pavel Jelic Even though the trend of social networks has been declining recently, there are still hundreds of millions of people in the world who use one of them. The largest social networks in the world belong to Facebook - specifically the network of the same name, or perhaps Instagram or the chat application WhatsApp. Most of us don't even realize how dependent we are on these networks when using them. In addition to the fact that we can communicate with our friends and family through them, they can also perfectly entertain us for a long time. However, as soon as a problem occurs on the part of the operator of a social network, people suddenly do not know what to do and wait impatiently for a fix.
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Of course, there are individuals who open a book instead of a social network, for example, these problems do not concern them. However, if you belong to modern individuals and use social networks, you may often be surprised by their malfunction. We experienced one such massive outage yesterday where users were unable to send messages on Messenger and even Instagram. Despite the fact that you will learn about this fact everywhere on the Internet within a few tens of minutes, it is useful to know how you can recognize the non-functionality of certain services practically immediately. It is used exactly for these cases Downdetector, which can inform you about non-functional services. Some companies, such as Apple, then offer their own special pages, on which you can view the status of individual services - but let's take a closer look at the mentioned Downdetector.
The Downdetector website is used, as the name suggests, to detect "down" services. The principle of this site is very simple and it is mainly created by the users themselves, exactly the same as you. These users can report that they are having problems with individual services. All these users are gradually replaced, and if you open the service on Downdetector during downtime, you can view their number. In this way, you can easily find out whether more users around the world have the problem, or whether the problem is on your end. If multiple users have the problem, it can be assumed that a certain service is down. After moving to the Downdetector pages, at the bottom you will find the services where users are currently experiencing an outage, and at the top you can use the search to find a specific service and its status. Under the profile of each service, you can then view more accurate data, for example a live map, or comments from individual users.
I also have the Sowndetector app, where you can set notifications
I also have the Downdetector app, where you can set notifications