Wow, they finally took my advice and changed their layout back! :P
I don't care how fast they claim to be now-- whether if it's true or not. reddit is down at the moment and I've been reloading like crazy for about 2 hours. I think there's a lesson to learn there.
If they have the brains to go back on these 2 changes and maintain the same uptime, there's absolutely no reason why they would not be able to surpass reddit again. Reddit is not without its share of problems:
- frequent downtime
- censorship and squatting of subreddits
- censorship of random subreddits like atheism
- shadow banning of random articlesShadowbanning from the site is really only done by hueypriest. If a mod shadowbans you, post elsewhere.
As far as downtime, they have three engineers. One programmer, and two sysadmins. Raldi just left for Google. Three engineers for 1.1 billion pageviews. Give them a break.
See the atheism debacle. They tweaked the "algorithm" until it stopped showing up in the top 10 (requirement for frontpage). Try submitting an anti-haskell article in proggit. It will never show up.
- Shadowbanning from the site is really only done by hueypriest. If a mod shadowbans you, post elsewhere.
Post elsewhere? The difference between the front page and a random unknown subreddit is 20k or 10 viewers. Articles can be "shadowbanned" because of their faulty anti-spam system. The main problem with shadowbanning is that people don't even know it is shadow banned until they start digging, so good stories get stuck in limbo.
- As far as downtime, they have three engineers. One programmer, and two sysadmins. Raldi just left for Google. Three engineers for 1.1 billion pageviews. Give them a break.
They had uptime problems far before 1.1 billion pageviews. Read the The Mythical Man-Month. 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month. 3 engineers is more than enough for this type of website. If it isn't, then they should've stopped adding features.
Sorry, but you lost all credibility right there.