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Re:Gmail was down by avenger123 on Friday January 24, 2014 @04:48PM (#7118331)
It's sometimes great pleasure to see how an original topic in HN starts delving into side topics that have nothing to do with the original. I thought it was a one-off thing but seems to happen quite a bit.
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Re:Gmail was down by larrys on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:46PM (#7118719)
Nothing wrong with a good fork!

The original post is sometimes just kindling for other discussions. What can you really say about gmail being down that is that interesting? (That is a question....)

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Re:Gmail was down by malandrew on Saturday January 25, 2014 @12:30AM (#7119973)
Would be interesting if we could flag a side conversation and they appear collapsed by default, with a button like "Off Topic. Click to Expand."
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Re:Gmail was down by intenex on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:18PM (#7118885)
I think that one's pretty easy: Why is it down? Technical hypotheses, discussion of past history of outages, etc.
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Re:Gmail was down by vacri on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:43PM (#7118694)
This is normal for any conversation.
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