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Proposal: "Showing the whale" will now replace the terms "Epic Fail" and "Belly up" in the web 2.0 lexicon and become shorthand for any sort of transitory ser

by TrevorJ 18y ago

Proposal: "Showing the whale" will now replace the terms "Epic Fail" and "Belly up" in the web 2.0 lexicon and become shorthand for any sort of transitory service failure of a web application. I feel that the slightly rude tone of the term "Showing the whale" appropriately reflects the disrespect a user feels when I service they rely on goes down without explanation.

sant0sk1 18y ago
The folks at Twitter have embraced the term: http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png http://static.twitter.com/images/whale.png
- TrevorJ 18y ago
  Yes, I know :-)
noonespecial 18y ago
Showed the whale, Jumped the shark, Epic fail, Nothing but carp. Its all fish to me. :)
- TrevorJ 18y ago
  Well done good sir.
lr 18y ago
Oh, I had to up-vote this because it is so funny! But I agree with jraines, it should be called the "Fail Whale".