I'm a bit astonished how here on HackerNews there are articles all day about how sophisticated and surprisingly complicated and convoluted stuff like hosting, IT security, people management, scaling, updating etc is and yet it is somehow ultra suspicious that a page with massive growth had to change in a non-lineary way over the course of two decades with rapidly changing culture...

Wow employing 300 people to keep up with a massively more popular internet on much more differentiated devices in times of information platforms manipulating national elections is not exactly 300 times as expensive as employing one dude to do odd jobs around the house?! Must be mismanagement!!

Wow administrating a site which went from changing slowly to changing at inhumane pace and serving those pages with media formats which did not even existed at the beginning to a growing global population does not just include changing a checkbox on hostgator?! Must be scammers in their IT!!

I realize this comes off as very salty - I actually don't have much stake in this personally but I despise the pseudo intellectual criticism here in this otherwise very down-to-earth community.

PS: Comparing things to cancer is the Hitler-comparison of biology.