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 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe