Click Frenzy's failure to launch Posted by stratos2 on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @03:32AM from the news.com.au dept. http://www.news.com.au/technology/biztech/how-to-get-the-best-deals-in-click-frenzy/story-fn5lic6c-1226520380827 ( 1 comment | 2 points | on HN )
The people running the site have known that a mass of traffic would be visiting the site at 7PM, and it has crashed under the load.
This is the equivalent of advertising a national sale and telling people to turn up at 7, and locking the doors. Unbelievable.