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This was meant as a friendly nod to the fact that FAANG outages usually lead to a lot of people checking HN and generating insane amounts of load, like the time
by Sebb767 5y ago
This was meant as a friendly nod to the fact that FAANG outages usually lead to a lot of people checking HN and generating insane amounts of load, like the time a few weeks ago when YouTube/Google Auth was down and took HN right with it :)
But overall this site is extremely well run, so please don't take this as more than a joke.
- dang 5y agoNo worries! But I don't think this happened? > YouTube/Google Auth was down and took HN right with it Have I forgotten something obvious?
- Sebb767 5y agoI think it was this [0] event. Some people commented on HN being overloaded [1], including me [2] :-) It was not completely down (iirc), but there were a lot of "Sorry, we cannot serve your request right now". [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25415989 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416390 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416390 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416144 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25416144