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by tempaccount420 926 days ago
It could be impressive, but the website frequently goes down when big news hit.

I think they could move it to a more powerful machine and the remaining issues would be fixed. It wouldn't be as big of a flex as running on an ancient Intel CPU though.

Edit: I got "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" while trying to send this comment :)

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Looking at that status page, unless it's completely wrong, there's outages multiple times every month. They really could just upgrade their instance and get more mileage out of it and it wouldn't require any "refactoring". Site's mostly fine as is