If you'll recall PG made his money writing what became Yahoo Shops, one of the largest retailers for individual vendors before Amazon and Ebay. He knows how to

If you'll recall PG made his money writing what became Yahoo Shops, one of the largest retailers for individual vendors before Amazon and Ebay. He knows how to program. The server is dealing with increasing pageloads and processing as it calculates karma and ranking of stories. I think it is unlikely an issue with Arc rather than an issue due to server load. Were it an issue with the coding we would have seen this issue in the past year, perhaps not as frequently but it still would have been noticed.