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Thanks for that link.

The comments are interesting, but the closing one by a Mark Peterson again goes to the bottom line of unaddressed technical debt by putting a date on the best known general technical problem:

Friendster failed in the summer of 2003 when it never took less than a minute to log into the site. Where it never took less than a minute to visit any page. Even pages that should/could have been static.

Debate about any missing feature after summer 2003 is less than moot.

Especially since added features or allowing viewing by the not logged in would tend to further slow down the site.