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> Hackernews is notorious for causing outages when a link to a self hosted site trends. This made me briefly nostalgic for the old glory days of Slashdot, whic
by technothrasher 8mo ago
> Hackernews is notorious for causing outages when a link to a self hosted site trends.
This made me briefly nostalgic for the old glory days of Slashdot, which is the first place I recall that would cause the "hug of death".
- danielray324 8mo ago[dead]
- mlrtime 8mo ago/. affect was a real thing for sure. I'm not sure it happens much on HN. My guess is a combination of tech being better and HN having lower volume vs peak /. (before digg&reddit).
- ChoGGi 8mo agoI believe the hug of death is Reddit, Slashdot was slashdotted.