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Sorry to digress, but what is brownout? First time I see this word.

• dwohnitmok 5y ago
  Degrading a service/feature or having intermittent failures rather than just immediately knocking a service/feature offline. In this case, intentionally induced and used as a strong nudge to downstream users to stop using this particular feature. Comes from terminology used for the electric grid, where a brownout is a milder form of a blackout. Instead of electricity being entirely shut off and everything goes "black," the voltage drops and lights dim, i.e. go "brown."
• ad700x 5y ago
  Usually 'brownout' refers to a situation where an electrical grid is failing to provide sufficient power but is still providing some. It's not quite a blackout, but its also not functioning properly. In this context it's referring to a transitory period where a feature is in a state of flux and may only partially work.
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