[KennyFromIT]

> I think they're the major company with the fewest 9s of uptime.

I think this possibly shows that they have a good understanding of what's most important to their users. If they were to ensure the application was highly available (think six 9s), then they would be sacrificing resources elsewhere in order to achieve this. They could recognize that an outage will not be a "life or death" event for their users and have decided the trade-off was worth it.

Counterpoint: Or, they could just be lazy (or incapable) and haven't tried to solve for higher availability. This is not likely.

[dralley]

If their time was instead spent on the redesign, it was completely wasted.