No entity with as much funding as Parler had is a beginner. If the actual principals are beginners, they have the wherewithal to hire seasoned experts and listen to them. Either they didn't hire them, or they didn't listen to them. The beginner's mistake isn't the technical failures of working the stack; it's the organizational failure to usefully apply millions of dollars to basic operational best practices.

They're clowns, and deserve to be laughed at as such.