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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by Crito on Monday January 06, 2014 @10:58PM (#7015402)
I can't speak for PG, but I think the general idea is that a slow influx of new users is less likely to alter the nature of HN as everyone has a chance to acclimatize (avoiding some sort of Eternal September), and the people who really "need" to be on HN (people interested in startups I guess?) will know about HN already, or be told about it. That last part might be a little "fightclub-ish" I guess, but it seems to be working alright.
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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by buttsex on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @12:34AM (#7015810)
Couldn't he just turn off registrations for new accounts? Not saying he needs to get HN to the top for a "startup" search query. I found HN by a Google search while looking for a good laptop to run Linux on.
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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by supergauntlet on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:01AM (#7016086)
That happens. When too many people register accounts they're locked for the rest of the day and the register account option is no longer there, only login.
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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by Crito on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @02:21AM (#7016131)
IIRC sometimes the "Create Account" section of the login page is missing, but can still be accessed through https://new.ycombinator.com/submit

That's not how it is right now so I'm not sure if I am remembering it correctly.

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Re:Hacker News down, unwisely returning HTTP 200 for outage ... by kgermino on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @04:52PM (#7020249)
IIRC (I might search for it later) that was a spambot fix. Apparently it was fairly effective - I presume the bots were smart enough to find the 'login' link on the front page then register an account from there but not much else.
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