Who said anything about “five nines”? All we know from the article:

A couple of hundred claims a week would be a lot in normal times, he says. When the coronavirus hit, millions of claims suddenly were being filed and hitting the front end, which could not handle the massive increase in volume.

I’d say it wouldn’t be that critical if was down half the time.

Not sure of these “millions of claims” were submitted within days, weeks, or months. So we have no clue about the volume. Maybe a single server would be fine. But who am I kidding, the cheap Javascript guys will probably build a distributed cloud monster anyways…

I don’t understand why they need COBOL programmers when it is a frontend load problem. Let some cheap Javascript guys write a new frontend with a cache.

I hope Lemmy will become this. Here is my strategy:

1. Create a Lemmy community (for example !automotive@discuss.tchncs.de).
2. Submit something every few days. Not much quality control. Quantity over quality for now.
3. Hope for a community to form.

Me too. The final “fight” in Portal was against my controller not Glados.

As someone who works in an “Rational” environment, I don’t really see a way out because that is just how this industry works. It isn’t about changing the way how our organization works, it would require changing our customers.

Spiritfarer. I’m a patient gamer and now that it is on sale, I finally picked it up.

Looks like fun but i heard it isn’t that easy. I fear it would be too frustrating for my kids (yet).

Purely open-source (no non-free data), then Widelands might be what he spent the most time on.

Sounds like non-free data is allowed. Then surely ioQuake is the native game I spent the most time with.

Sounds like you would prefer a peer2peer approach instead of federation? A few years ago, I wrote up why I don’t belief in p2p. In short: It’s too costly and too complex.

Well, initially he moderated everything. He also creates lots of sock puppets for fake activity. That would be much easier today with chatgpt.

I would not bet on that. In fact, i bet some play money against that.

Yes, it is amazing the Zelda actually got #1 at all.

My Reddit frontpage only contains a few minor subs still which are probably without an active moderator and some „going dark“ announcements. Very noticeable.

You belong to the !patientgamers@lemmy.ml ;)

Trine Enchanted Edition, Spiritfarer, and Runbow. My focus is mostly local-multiplayer though.

The great subreddits are full of „self“ posts, not links. How could one recreate that in an authentic way?

I mostly left when they killed the compact UI. Only using it on my laptop from time to time.