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Why AO3 Was Down

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madaxe_again ◴[] No.44470505[source]
This is like seeing a brick wall 40 miles down a straight road and yet still managing to drive into it, and then blaming the wall.
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alt187 ◴[] No.44471860[source]
> This is like seeing a brick wall 40 miles down a straight road and yet still managing to drive into it, and then blaming the wall.

Not really, no. For example, if you drive into the wall, you may die.

Another experience that feels like death is working in a company that implements on-call rotations.

It would be too easy to draw out a parallel between how you approach a free fanfiction website (the website should mystically owe you five 9's uptime) and the mentality that metastased in the industry.

Instead, I'm gonna take this opportunity to point out that the AO3 downtime affected you, as a non-user, enough to vitrify the admin, where hardcore users laughed it off (because they're not entitled toddlers).

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1. madaxe_again ◴[] No.44472314[source]
I don’t think I turned the admin into glass, nor vilified them - just pointed out that this sort of thing is readily avoided.

But sure, I committed a hate crime.