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>> when one of the top 3 most-visited-domains in the world goes down Which is in itself a major news story. Before talking about facebook v. other new sites w
by sandworm101 5y ago
>> when one of the top 3 most-visited-domains in the world goes down
Which is in itself a major news story. Before talking about facebook v. other new sites we mush take account of the greater number of people looking for news content regardless of platform. The increase might more people looking for news rather than people having to go elsewhere than facebook.
- BoxOfRain 5y agoI agree, HN itself slowed to a crawl and eventually went down temporarily for me but I’d bet one of my toes that it’s because half the devs, sysadmins etc of the world were trying to find out what was going on rather than people no longer distracted by Facebook looking for something else to do.