What's far worse than half of the internet being down was that Hacker News also had problems. If I waited long enough on a comments page I got an error message. I don't quite understand what happened there. The communication between my system and HN must have been working otherwise I would never have gotten an error message, so it must have been some internal HN problem. But since HN should only need its own internal "database" to generate comment pages, I don't understand why it should be impacted by the Fastly problems.