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Re:The new Digg by damncabbage on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @09:32AM (#4322715)
Counterpoint: Twitter went "down" for five hours about five months back because someone typo'd true in the blob of javascript it serves up.

If your site still works without javascript, at least something will work if a bug slips through to production.

(I agree with you for the most part; it's just when even page navigation breaks it can get more than mildly annoying.)

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Re:The new Digg by polyfractal on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @10:48AM (#4323152)
This is a silly argument. You could just as easily put a typo in your apache/nginx config and nuke your site. It has nothing to do with gracefully degrading with respect to javascript
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