On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 06:48:20PM +0100, Christopher Done wrote:
Of course, their use lies in their popularity. To be popular you have to be (1) well designed/usable and (2) stable/aka never down. This is why e.g. Github is extremely useful. It's well designed so it's easy to use, it's popular so most people are familiar with the interface, and it has near-perfect uptime. I frown a bit when someone provides a link to their Git repository and it's some custom repo viewer or non at all on a domain that may or may not exist next week. Twitter, reddit and blogspot are pretty much ideal for reporting on uptime issues.
Twitter and Reddit both have periods of unavailability almost on a daily basis, often several times per day. They always come back, but they are hardly models of availability. Just saying... dwc