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Ask HN: How Did the Outage Affect You Personally?

19 points by cenhyperion 13y ago

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schappim 13y ago
I think I speak for everyone when I say significantly more work got done!
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viclou 13y ago
Life in general was better. :)
iwaffles 13y ago
I went outside. It's bright out there. There were strange creatures walking and making noises.
yla92 13y ago
I felt something I do daily is missing out and I kept refreshing the site.
evbogue 13y ago
I wondered if HN had been NSLed.
xmonkee 13y ago
I got work done yadda yadda, but I was also pretty bored when I needed a break. In the long term, if HN disappears, I'll probably find something else. So get your shit together HN and don't die on us again.
- rfw 13y ago
  Or maybe you'll just get more work done ;)
s0l1dsnak3123 13y ago
It was awful, don't let it happen again.
rhgraysonii 13y ago
I got a ton done on the side project I have been hacking together. It started as a blog post but will end a short book on the Meteor framework. Hopefully finished by the weeks end! I got about 3000 words in while we were down! :) Edit: It will be totally free and open source, and is being written on a collaborative platform ala git where anyone can add a branch for edits/extra content/suggestions. I don't want to plug it shamelessly, but if you're really interested email me and I will send you a link. It's in my profile.
vfclists 13y ago
I realized how compulsively I click on HN. All in all it is not a healthy habit. I ought to give it up or cut down. Before it used to be The Register, Ars Technica and Wired.
rmah 13y ago
It didn't
Dogamondo 13y ago
I learned to code, finally.
cgore 13y ago
I went to Slashdot for the first time in about a year or two. It still sucks.
- angersock 13y ago
  No, it sucks worse. Their new layout is all Weboblag 3.0.
  - sentenza 13y ago
    I'm not sure that matters. For all that I care, a site like HN or Slashdot might as well look as if it came straight from 1997. What killed Slashdot was the abysmal quality/delay/editing of posted stories.
nhangen 13y ago
It didn't.
dysoco 13y ago
If a website outage affects your life in any significant manner then I'm sorry but your life is non existent. Unless it's StackOverflow, I can't imagine StackOverflow going down.
- tomphoolery 13y ago
  I think I would be very upset if Soundcloud went down for a week. But you know, we'd all get by. :)
- wavesounds 13y ago
  Unless its healthcare.gov and you know you get sick or something.
- sentenza 13y ago
  So you are saying that sysadmins don't have a life, since an outage of any public-facing sites _that they are responsible for_ usually has a significant impact on their lives.
Crito 13y ago
Shakes and tremors. I no longer have fingernails and I chewed through an entire box of pencils.
- mman 13y ago
  Sounds like a possible psychological issue. This might lead to a problem for society. We might want to get you some preventive treatment for that before you have a chance of harming someone. Do you think prison might work well here?
  - Crito 13y ago
    I advocate medical treatment for addiction, though of course I am joking here. I assume we were discussing this yesterday, after the last HN restore point?
    - mman 13y ago
      Yes, discussing yesterday, exactly. I missed that discussion when it was gone. The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based on subjective reason like labeling makes for unwarranted control of human beings by other human beings or systems. I can just imagine a set of RAS checkboxes similar to stop and frisk for mental illness and homelessness. None of these are ok and the fact that we are supporting systems like this means we are headed backwards instead of forwards. Harming others is a separate issue and is always a problem.
cherioo 13y ago
Increased productivity.
notastartup 13y ago
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I kept checking and checking HN over and over again. When I couldn't take it anymore I started to do some actual work.
philip1209 13y ago
I was highly productive today.
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hkmurakami 13y ago
I visited Hatena Bookmark (somewhere between HN and Reddit in terms of content type and quality, for Japanese links) much more frequently and discovered how much worse (for me) the curation there is (because it's more mainstream than HN).
shawnk 13y ago
I couldn't get my fix man!!!
eugeneross 13y ago
Jesus. Is this an actual question?
arsey 13y ago
I had planned on writing up an email gleaned from some HN comment insight, and citing the comment. "I'll just do that tomorrow" I thought. But, as we found out, there was no tomorrow.
NamTaf 13y ago
I regressed from man to beast, communicating in grunts and fueled by primal instinct. My time was taken up with hitting the ground with femurs and painting on cave walls with mud.
- angersock 13y ago
  Ah, so back to your day job with PHP I see?
- Udo 13y ago
  Was there a black monolith nearby?
dzink 13y ago
I went outside in what felt like -34F in Chicago to blow soap bubbles in the air and watch them land at the consistency of plastic bags.
Sukotto 13y ago
It gave me a chance to really compare the opportunity cost of readership versus the amount of personably actionable material I find here. As a result I've decided to drastically restrict the time I spend here. (And that's me done for today)
angersock 13y ago
In my desperation I turned to /. and VentureBeat, because I can't browse 4chan at work. And I don't have a membership to lobste.rs :( So, instead, I read about unit testing with Karma.
tzs 13y ago
rant I switched to Feedly when Google Reader closed, so it made me a bit depressed because I figured Feedly would be fucked like it was last time HN went down. I had to unsubscribe and resubscribe to get it to start showing new items. And indeed it is. I want to get my feed from news.ycombinator.com/rss. That's what I had in Google. That works in Digg Reader. It works in NewsFire. Not at Feedly. Feedly insists that there is no RSS feed there. Last time, I was able to find something that was close among the feeds that Feedly offered. That was http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml. (I got that from Feedly's exported OPML). So this time, I unsubscribed and resubscribed, but it was unclear which feed was right from the 9 that Feedly says are available for news.ycombinator.com. Adding all and looking at the OPML, it looks like the one that corresponds to what I was using (http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml) is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/BwPx http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/BwPx. But I'm not sure. It doesn't seem to match news.ycombinator.com/rss as well as the old one did--but maybe there is some delay because Feedly apparently is going through feedburner, so I'm not actually sure whether or not I've found the right thing. This isn't the middle ages. This crap [1] should not be happening. /rant [1] "This crap" solely refers to Feedly, not to HN going down. Sites go down on occasion, so I have no complaint about HN in this regard.
- tzs 13y ago
  Figured out why Feedly would not let me get the feeds directly from HN. It was an http vs https issue.

19 points by cenhyperion 13y ago

deleted 13y ago

[deleted]

schappim 13y ago

I think I speak for everyone when I say significantly more work got done!

deleted 13y ago

[deleted]

viclou 13y ago

Life in general was better. :)

iwaffles 13y ago

I went outside. It's bright out there. There were strange creatures walking and making noises.

yla92 13y ago

I felt something I do daily is missing out and I kept refreshing the site.

evbogue 13y ago

I wondered if HN had been NSLed.

xmonkee 13y ago

I got work done yadda yadda, but I was also pretty bored when I needed a break. In the long term, if HN disappears, I'll probably find something else. So get your shit together HN and don't die on us again.

rfw 13y ago
Or maybe you'll just get more work done ;)

s0l1dsnak3123 13y ago

It was awful, don't let it happen again.

rhgraysonii 13y ago

I got a ton done on the side project I have been hacking together. It started as a blog post but will end a short book on the Meteor framework. Hopefully finished by the weeks end! I got about 3000 words in while we were down! :) Edit: It will be totally free and open source, and is being written on a collaborative platform ala git where anyone can add a branch for edits/extra content/suggestions. I don't want to plug it shamelessly, but if you're really interested email me and I will send you a link. It's in my profile.

vfclists 13y ago

I realized how compulsively I click on HN. All in all it is not a healthy habit. I ought to give it up or cut down. Before it used to be The Register, Ars Technica and Wired.

rmah 13y ago

It didn't

Dogamondo 13y ago

I learned to code, finally.

cgore 13y ago

I went to Slashdot for the first time in about a year or two. It still sucks.

angersock 13y ago
No, it sucks worse. Their new layout is all Weboblag 3.0.
- sentenza 13y ago
  I'm not sure that matters. For all that I care, a site like HN or Slashdot might as well look as if it came straight from 1997. What killed Slashdot was the abysmal quality/delay/editing of posted stories.

nhangen 13y ago

It didn't.

dysoco 13y ago

If a website outage affects your life in any significant manner then I'm sorry but your life is non existent. Unless it's StackOverflow, I can't imagine StackOverflow going down.

tomphoolery 13y ago
I think I would be very upset if Soundcloud went down for a week. But you know, we'd all get by. :)
wavesounds 13y ago
Unless its healthcare.gov and you know you get sick or something.
sentenza 13y ago
So you are saying that sysadmins don't have a life, since an outage of any public-facing sites _that they are responsible for_ usually has a significant impact on their lives.

Crito 13y ago

Shakes and tremors. I no longer have fingernails and I chewed through an entire box of pencils.

mman 13y ago
Sounds like a possible psychological issue. This might lead to a problem for society. We might want to get you some preventive treatment for that before you have a chance of harming someone. Do you think prison might work well here?
- Crito 13y ago
  I advocate medical treatment for addiction, though of course I am joking here. I assume we were discussing this yesterday, after the last HN restore point?
  - mman 13y ago
    Yes, discussing yesterday, exactly. I missed that discussion when it was gone. The point is the same whether you were joking about addiction or not. Preemptive forced action based on subjective reason like labeling makes for unwarranted control of human beings by other human beings or systems. I can just imagine a set of RAS checkboxes similar to stop and frisk for mental illness and homelessness. None of these are ok and the fact that we are supporting systems like this means we are headed backwards instead of forwards. Harming others is a separate issue and is always a problem.

cherioo 13y ago

Increased productivity.

notastartup 13y ago

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. I kept checking and checking HN over and over again. When I couldn't take it anymore I started to do some actual work.

philip1209 13y ago

I was highly productive today.

deleted 13y ago

[deleted]

hkmurakami 13y ago

I visited Hatena Bookmark (somewhere between HN and Reddit in terms of content type and quality, for Japanese links) much more frequently and discovered how much worse (for me) the curation there is (because it's more mainstream than HN).

shawnk 13y ago

I couldn't get my fix man!!!

eugeneross 13y ago

Jesus. Is this an actual question?

arsey 13y ago

I had planned on writing up an email gleaned from some HN comment insight, and citing the comment. "I'll just do that tomorrow" I thought. But, as we found out, there was no tomorrow.

NamTaf 13y ago

I regressed from man to beast, communicating in grunts and fueled by primal instinct. My time was taken up with hitting the ground with femurs and painting on cave walls with mud.

angersock 13y ago
Ah, so back to your day job with PHP I see?
Udo 13y ago
Was there a black monolith nearby?

dzink 13y ago

I went outside in what felt like -34F in Chicago to blow soap bubbles in the air and watch them land at the consistency of plastic bags.

Sukotto 13y ago

It gave me a chance to really compare the opportunity cost of readership versus the amount of personably actionable material I find here. As a result I've decided to drastically restrict the time I spend here. (And that's me done for today)

angersock 13y ago

In my desperation I turned to /. and VentureBeat, because I can't browse 4chan at work. And I don't have a membership to lobste.rs :( So, instead, I read about unit testing with Karma.

tzs 13y ago

rant I switched to Feedly when Google Reader closed, so it made me a bit depressed because I figured Feedly would be fucked like it was last time HN went down. I had to unsubscribe and resubscribe to get it to start showing new items. And indeed it is. I want to get my feed from news.ycombinator.com/rss. That's what I had in Google. That works in Digg Reader. It works in NewsFire. Not at Feedly. Feedly insists that there is no RSS feed there. Last time, I was able to find something that was close among the feeds that Feedly offered. That was http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml. (I got that from Feedly's exported OPML). So this time, I unsubscribed and resubscribed, but it was unclear which feed was right from the 9 that Feedly says are available for news.ycombinator.com. Adding all and looking at the OPML, it looks like the one that corresponds to what I was using (http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/hacker-news-feed?format=xml) is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/BwPx http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/BwPx. But I'm not sure. It doesn't seem to match news.ycombinator.com/rss as well as the old one did--but maybe there is some delay because Feedly apparently is going through feedburner, so I'm not actually sure whether or not I've found the right thing. This isn't the middle ages. This crap [1] should not be happening. /rant [1] "This crap" solely refers to Feedly, not to HN going down. Sites go down on occasion, so I have no complaint about HN in this regard.

tzs 13y ago
Figured out why Feedly would not let me get the feeds directly from HN. It was an http vs https issue.