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Well Twitter is where everyone goes now when something is broken. I'm not sure its the right solution but it's part of the way there.
by pling 12y ago
Well Twitter is where everyone goes now when something is broken. I'm not sure its the right solution but it's part of the way there.
- jpgvm 12y agoTwitter and all of these other commercial services lack the sheer resiliency of IRC. Taking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult. Twitter doesn't fail-whale as often but it's still centralised and not overly reliable or robust in comparison.
- andor 12y agoTaking down an IRC network (assuming DNS is not affected or users have cached list of servers in their client) is incredibly difficult. Yes, but remember that DDoSing individual servers and taking over channels through the resulting netsplits was a favorite pastime of bored teenagers around the world.
- ASneakyFox 12y agoThat's not so easy to do any more.
- cmdrfred 12y agoI'd say it's easier if anything. http://www.nimbusddos.com/ http://www.nimbusddos.com/