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> Why weren't they dockerized and prepared to move containers and backups at the drop of a hat? Why didn't they have hot spares elsewhere? Maybe the techies w
by sumedh 6y ago
> Why weren't they dockerized and prepared to move containers and backups at the drop of a hat? Why didn't they have hot spares elsewhere?
Maybe the techies with those skills dont want to work there and so the existing employees might not have the skills to do that.
- notatrumper 6y agoDifficult to compete with companies that have billions of dollars to spend.
- doyouevensunbro 6y agoThe Mercers have billions they could spend on this: https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-makes-play-for-conservatives-mad-at-facebook-twitter-11605382430 https://www.wsj.com/articles/parler-backed-by-mercer-family-...
- notatrumper 6y agoJust because the invested some money in that, doesn't mean they should bet all their wealth on it?
- ehsankia 6y agoExactly, these people don't want to put in the work. They just want to use shortcuts, but just as you're not entitled to an account Twitter, you're also not entitled to a cloud service provider. Parler hasn't seen 1/10th the the deplatforming that The Pirate Bay has seen for example, yet that managed to survive throughout the years and is still up now. The reality is that whoever was running Parler had no clue what they were doing.
- notatrumper 6y agoWho says it is the end of the story for Parler? They came on the scene many years after Twitter and Facebook. They have a lot of catching up to do, with a lot less money at their disposal. In the early days, Twitter ran on Ruby on Rails, hardly a scalable decision, either.
- Tokkemon 6y agoAiding and abetting insurrectionists isn't a good look.
- vzcx 6y agoTo you and others, perhaps, but there is clearly a sizable portion of the population that is either neutral or positive. Large divergences in worldview and values, combined with universal policies, create underserved market segments, and thus opportunities. "Aid and abet" and "insurrection" are part of a framing that not everyone accepts.
- astronautjones 6y agowhat a ridiculous comment. it was a crowd of some of the dumbest people alive - some attempting to kidnap, injure, and kill lawmakers, some thinking that by entering the building they'd find an OVERTHROW GOVT button. Idiots. anyone that tries to both sides this shit deserves eternal shame
- notatrumper 6y agoWere any of them even on Parler? Is there a list?
- notatrumper 6y agoSome people are less concerned about "the look". I personally just want a social network were I don't have to worry about being banned every minute. (Not sure if PArler qualifies, but I suppose it is their selling point).
- BlueTemplar 6y agoDepends how much time it will take them to be back up again : if it takes too long, most of their potential users will have moved on, for instance to Gab.
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- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoIts more that nothing they do can overcome the fact that everyone has blacklisted them. You can't run a site on the internet without having ISPs and DNS registers on your side at least. Even if they rehost somewhere else they will just be hit with the next level of blocks and have wasted the money rehosting.
- ehsankia 6y agoAgain, TPB, Sci-hub and many others have done it for decades. It's nothing new.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThe freaking stormfront is still up, so I doubt Parler will not find a way too. The question is what fraction of their users will they lose over it?
- SulfurHexaFluri 6y agoVia a tor hidden service iirc. This would seriously limit how many users they can have
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWell, you made me visit it... :/ No, it's on the open Web.
- brown9-2 6y agoIf a company can’t attract skilled workers who want to build its product, that sounds like a great vote against its existence.
- chrissnell 6y agoWhat makes you think they can't attract talent? There are plenty of libertarians in tech that would be willing to work with them, including this SRE right here. I think they had other issues. Perhaps they were just out of their league and didn't have the leadership capable of fighting fires while simultaneously recruiting, scaling, policing, etc. Typical successful startup skills that many people don't have.
- brown9-2 6y agoI’m responding to a person who made this assertion, but designing your site in a way that non-users can archive all media uploaded to it seems like a good sign!