[bboygravity]

You worried about that?

I'm a frequent flyer and I got a feeling that most airline ticket booking pages are broken in some way more than half the time. Maybe not often broken to the point that they're blank, but definitely broken to the point that booking a ticket isn't possible (I prefer blank, so that I don't waste like 30 minutes on not being able to book a ticket).

Also most of the internet seems often broken. Oh hello Nike webshop errors upon payment (on Black Friday) for which helpdesk's solution is: just use the App.

[BiteCode_dev]

Hell, I used to worry about down time for my tiny blog. Didn't want to let down my readers.

Everything can be a guilt trip if you try hard enough.

Then I met a guy, now a good friend, that made me do my first "pull the plug migration" on his most important website. He lived on this.

I looked at the site going down, horified. He mocked me, then proceeded with the udate. It didn't work. The site stayed offline for hours.

Then it worked again. And nobody cared. It had zero consequences on traffic.

User were pissed off for a few hours, and life goes on.

[thfuran]

What always got me is that, for at least the first several years, Google couldn't get their store page to handle the load when they were releasing a new phone and it'd be crapping out for days.

[creshal]

Steam still craps out during large sales. I really wonder how Valve calculates that it's fine to keep losing out on (cumulatively) hours of sales each time.

[lucb1e]

Woa, and I always wonder why it's only me that seems to have to use the developer tools to enable that stupid submit button when I filled out every field on the page correctly, shaking my head and wondering how normal people use the internet. I keep thinking it's got to be something about using firefox instead of a big tech browser, my mouse gestures extension, I don't know but normal webshops are broken so often it's insane. Thanks for sharing that it's not just me!