Here’s a 2011 HN post describing that claim about an unscalable feature in more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370291 https://news.ycombinator.co

Here’s a 2011 HN post describing that claim about an unscalable feature in more detail: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370291 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2370291 (That was linked from http://highscalability.com/blog/2007/11/13/friendster-lost-lead-because-of-a-failure-to-scale.html http://highscalability.com/blog/2007/11/13/friendster-lost-l... but I had to fix the link, since it went to apps.ycombinator.com which must have been the HN URL at the time. Maybe dang can update DNS to make those old links redirect? Everything after the host was still correct.)