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Re:Slack is down by easton on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:20PM (#25634540)
It isn’t just you, but due to Hacker News’ right-sized[0] infrastructure, you should sign out unless you need to comment. That way you hit the caches instead of getting the server to make you a new page.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461

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Re:Slack is down by btmiller on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:36PM (#25634876)
That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).
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Re:Slack is down by kortilla on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:02PM (#25635309)
It is “right-sized” if it happens so rarely that it realistically causes no problems.
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Re:Slack is down by btmiller on Monday January 04, 2021 @01:14PM (#25635497)
Rare is not never.
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Re:Slack is down by kortilla on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:42PM (#25640995)
But never isn’t necessarily a reasonable goal. People will tolerate outages when it’s not lost money/business.
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Re:Slack is down by minitoar on Monday January 04, 2021 @12:32PM (#25634789)
Is this still true? Asking because that comment from dang is 4 years old.
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