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As of mid 2013 according to that blog, but I still bump into this from time to time

I agree to an extent. For a discussion board, the main focus is the 14 year old which makes the discussion less interesting from a technology viewpoint.

However, for a news article I think that "14 year old made cool thing!" would add to it.

This was interesting, temporarily storing messages to cater messages slightly will make things feel more natural.

"Hello"

"Hello, by the way where you from? [...]"

"United Kingdom"

"[...] I've heard that is very nice"

"From who?"

"Who ? is an interesting person whom you can learn about on the Wikipedia article about Space Adventures – Music from 'Doctor Who' 1963–1968, whom I love.

By the way, how are you feeling right now?"

Except if they had monetised in a way that isn't changing their entire app then they would have been more likely to stay successful.

This change was poorly thought out and probably wasn't going to be successful, same as if Twitter spun their micro-blogging to another app, it wouldn't end well.

If your monetisation attempt kills your app, you will go bankrupt and it is a failure.

Maybe they're gonna be twice as slow now?

Checking their about page, they have 3 web developers, one of which wrote that post. That's worrying.

Very minor bug on the demo: The alert on click reads "clicked X" (eg, "Clicked Avatar") on all of the titles except for Quantum of Solace

Better or richer schools will always have an advantage over schools with worse teachers or less funding, particularly with the way we currently do exams.

Their Twitter feed is an excellent lesson on how to handle a breach: https://twitter.com/puushme

That's a very different scenario than what's actually happening, and it's very interesting that you jump to "American company, defend it!" instead of pointing out that it's a valuable tool worldwide.

Maybe, but they have 272 employees, I'm sure most of those will be capable of a quick "we got this many requests in this many seconds". Though their team page doesn't list job titles.

It's a developer oriented site. Why would a non-developer care that it's down? The main outlets want the attention of the majority - so we don't get alerts when HN, Github, etc go down or get attacked but we do when Facebook drops for 15 minutes

Most blog updates like this post the traffic they're experiencing, is there a reason Github wouldn't do that?

July 2011, and a lot of people still use it and want full functionality because being 4 years out of date isn't publicized enough

What do users who don't want to sign a petition have to do to find out if we've been spied on?

Is the talk in the basement of The Phoenix? (and is there a bar in the basement or should I use the upstairs bar?) - I work nearby so this might be a good opportunity for attending my first talk