They got a lot of shit for scalability issues but their initial success just took them by surprise, like everyone else in the industry. IIRC they had at least

They got a lot of shit for scalability issues but their initial success just took them by surprise, like everyone else in the industry. IIRC they had at least an order of magnitude more users than their more optimistic estimations. It does not excuse everything but their initial scaling issues are pretty understandable