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In the early days of Twitter the "fail whale" was so common it got assimilated into culture as a term to use for anytime any site gets overloaded. Nowadays it s

• paulcole 8y ago
  For us old timers the term is “slashdotted.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect
  • throw_away 8y ago
    As slashdot's active user count dwindles and as it has gotten a bit easier to build a site that can handle decent traffic, I wonder if there was (or will be) a specific last site to get literally slashdotted.
    • flurdy 8y ago
      I doubt you get many/any sites slashdotted from the actual slashdot these days. But you do see sites slashdotted from HN articles every day. And you will be going forwards as well. People will not create horizontally autoscalable, cachachable sites as that cost money and effort for 99.9999% sites that will never need it. True we are at an age were it is easier, more well known how to do it, and less and less costly, but still not free in money and time.
• liquidgecka 8y ago
  Everybody knows about the "fail whale".. nobody knows about the "moan cone".. The image is lost to history but it was captured by this account ages ago: https://twitter.com/moan_cone https://twitter.com/moan_cone IT was thrown when the system was failing at the rails layer rather than the apache layer. I believe that Ryan King and I were the last people to ever see the moan cone in production. =)
  • evanweaver 8y ago
    Do you remember the fixit kitten?
    • liquidgecka 8y ago
      That got nuked right about the time that I started! I never saw it live.