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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by rrix2 on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:14PM (#28752157)
> If only IRC would have been built with multi-server setups in mind, that forward messages between servers, and continues to work if a single - or even a set - of servers would go down, just resulting in a netsplit...Oh wait, it was!

yeah if only Facebook's production engineering team had hired a team of full time IRCops for their emergency fallback network...

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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by littlecranky67 on Monday October 04, 2021 @05:53PM (#28752562)
Considering how much IRCops were paid back in the day (mostly zero as they were volunteers) and what a single senior engineer at FB makes, I'm sure you will find 3-4 people spread amongst the world willing to share this 250k+ salary amongst them.
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