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What's the term for when a failing service causes the users of said service to use it more to complain about it failing? Because it sure seems like that's happe
by Adamantcheese 3y ago
What's the term for when a failing service causes the users of said service to use it more to complain about it failing? Because it sure seems like that's happening to some extent.
- greyface- 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thundering_herd_problem
- Adamantcheese 3y agoNot exactly what I was thinking of, because that's more on a local system than at web scale. Something else, I'm sure it's related though, kinda like a crowd crush?
- cratermoon 3y agothundering herd really only happens at 'web scale', whatever that means. There was an article on HN recently showing how even a distributed/replicated system can fall to the thundering herd.
- oneepic 3y agoIn gaming terminology, those users got taunted. [1] https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_Crowd_Control#Taunt https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Types_of_Crowd_Contr... or [2] https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Taunt https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Taunt