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I recall twitter's early rewrite going pretty well. The "fail whale" was a real big deal before that. They went from notoriously poor uptime to being on par wit

by RickS 9y ago

I recall twitter's early rewrite going pretty well. The "fail whale" was a real big deal before that. They went from notoriously poor uptime to being on par with facebook.

mrkrabo 9y ago
But that was a rewrite of the backend which was very needed. The design didn't change. Although I agree, Reddit desperately needs a rewrite of its backend.