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Let me guess... they junked the Lisp codebase and replaced it with some PHP and Perl? DARFC...

• paganel 4y ago
  Afaik they were running on Drupal? Meaning PHP. But maybe I'm remembering wrong.
  • FraaJad 4y ago
    Yeah, it's Drupal (PHP)
    • marginalia_nu 4y ago
      For some reason, I feel that name crops up very frequently in the discussion of sites keeling over to a HN death-hug.
      • cweagans 4y ago
        Drupal is a heavy application for sure, but it's also used in a lot of very high-volume places (sometimes in ways that you might not expect - for instance, va.gov is (sorta) built with Drupal. As of a few years ago, all of the NBCUniversal sites were as well). It takes some TLC to get it running properly. The ancient version that this site is running (Drupal 4.6 it looks like - released in 2007) probably just can't handle it. (full disclosure, I occasionally contribute to Drupal + work/worked on the sites mentioned above)
  • lproven 4y ago
    I was actually making, or attempting to make, a joke. Replacing arguably the greatest programming language with the undisputed worst. Ah, well...
• AceJohnny2 4y ago
  Because I didn't know: DARFC = Ducking And Running For Cover
  • lproven 4y ago
    Indeed so. :-)
• chubot 4y ago
  Wait is this true? Was the LTU site ever written in Lisp? Would be very funny if so. On the other hand, we're on a site not just written in Lisp now, but the original author's own Lisp dialect (ARC). So I think it's more about the programmers than the language ... I can attest from my own web logs that HN gets a huge amount of traffic