• @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    11 year ago

    That graph literally says “significant anomalies in source data”, so they’re even saying that it’s not an accurate picture though.

    Rate limiting isn’t “struggling to keep working”. It isn’t like it was crashing due to people using it too much. Saying “we know their reason is bullshit” doesn’t make it true. Nothing indicated that they were having trouble with uptime or performance.

    • HeavyDogFeet
      link
      English
      1
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      Yes, it says there are anomalies—that doesn’t mean it’s wrong, just that it’s unusual. Almost like there was a moron in charge of the company who was making erratic changes to its infrastructure and driving a mass exodus of users. And even if that number is wrong (it probably is) it’s not like the previous number isn’t heavily outdated. There have been massive changes to Twitter since then, it would be stupid to assume old data is still accurate.

      It was crashing in part because Twitter was DDOSing itself. Twitter rate-limited itself on purpose because they were fucking their own system up, but they gave a BS reason because it would be embarrassing for Musk to have to admit he fired too many people and the skeleton crew that’s left can’t keep up with his stupid decisions.

      Remember, this is a website that primarily serves short text-only posts and was largely stable when it was bought. It’s not rocket science, and yet Musk’s still managing to make it look hard.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        1
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        I didn’t say it means it’s wrong, just that it’s not going to be an accurate picture. It might be right, it might be wrong, we have no idea - which is why they put that qualifier there.

        There’s nothing indicating twitter isn’t still largely stable.

        Also that’s not a DDOS since there was no denial of service. Those calls are likely all just getting stopped at a cloudflare (or alternative) level anyway.

        • HeavyDogFeet
          link
          English
          11 year ago

          There was no denial of service because they rate limited accounts. That’s the entire point. Had they not done that, it’s likely they would have overwhelmed their servers and crashed the service, resulting in denial of service.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            11 year ago

            But no one knows when that repeated call was added to twitter - it could have been there for years. Like I said, it also likely just gets caught by cloudflare etc when it’s doing that, meaning it’s not going to overwhelm anything.

            You’re saying that they did a release, realised it was going to DDOS itself, so then rate limited accounts in another release rather than simply roll back the broken release or fix the call? That doesn’t make any sense.

            • HeavyDogFeet
              link
              English
              11 year ago

              They didn’t realise it was going to DDOS itself, it was in the process of hammering their servers and they rate limited accounts because they didn’t know what was happening. It was still making excessive calls when they were rate limiting.

              It makes no sense because the things they’re doing aren’t the actions of a competent team with a knowledgeable tech lead.

              I think I’ve made my point pretty clear by now. If you’d still like to believe they’re not useless, go for gold, but the facts doesn’t support that.

              • @[email protected]
                link
                fedilink
                English
                11 year ago

                That’s 100% guessing based on nothing more than your wild speculation. You have no facts to support it.

                • HeavyDogFeet
                  link
                  English
                  11 year ago

                  I mean, neither do you. This is all speculation since it’s a private company run by a known liar.

                  • @[email protected]
                    link
                    fedilink
                    English
                    11 year ago

                    I’m not the one making claims, you are. You’ve got nothing to support those claims.

                    As a developer myself I’m 99.9% sure what you’re claiming didn’t happen because it makes no sense from a dev standpoint.