I attended a ColdFusion conference back in 2004-5 time frame where one of their top guys was brought in to talk about their success with BlueDragon.NET to allow

I attended a ColdFusion conference back in 2004-5 time frame where one of their top guys was brought in to talk about their success with BlueDragon.NET to allow them to run CFML on .NET as they transition to Microsoft's stack. They talked about how they were posting dozens of revisions a day and things would break regularly. He joked about how when the site went down a little flash game would come up and people started asking for the site to go down again so they could play the game. Sounded like a mess and other developers in audience felt the same way. Then I signed up and saw how bad it really was as half my searches resulted in errors and the design sucked, among various other issues. Facebook was just awesome in comparison. I think MySpace's death spiral can be almost completely attributed to their lack of professionalism, for lack of a better word, from the start and the only way to remedy would have been to start from scratch.