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Am I too harsh for expecting that in 2023, a company actively signing up customers for a cloud-based service should have enough autoscaling so that getting to t
by humanistbot 4y ago
Am I too harsh for expecting that in 2023, a company actively signing up customers for a cloud-based service should have enough autoscaling so that getting to the front page of HN doesn't overload the landing page? It just doesn't give me much faith that the actual product will be stable enough to use. Especially just giving a generic 5XX error from nginx is a bad sign.
Edit: did this get manually knocked off the front page without getting flagged?
- foverzar 4y agoI feel like it's only the part with generic nginx 5xx error that sets the bar a bit too high. Too many huge services suffer from the same sin.
- Deukhoofd 4y agoLet's be fair, ChatGPT has had issues with being overloaded ever since its initial release, and they're still not entirely fixed.
- voytec 4y agoChatGPT may need a tad stronger infrastructure than a landing page.
- humanistbot 4y agoSure, but their landing page never goes down when ChatGPT is over capacity, and their over capacity page is a delight of downtime design. It has auto-generated content in different genre styles about being over capacity. They even let you enter your email to get notified when it is back. But I do get frustrated that every time I've entered my email to be notified I've never actually been notified.
- AvAn12 4y agoOr could this be a marketing stunt? OMG we are so popular that nobody can get to our site for the first 48 hours etc. etc.