Agreed - The worst part is most of the people making these unhelpful comments are probably doing the same sorts of things which caused this outage.

Big threads draw a lot of people; we regress toward the mean

> I honestly though HN was slightly higher quality

HN reminds me of nothing so much as Slashdot in the early 2000's, for both good and ill. Fewer stupid memes about Beowulf Clusters and Natalie Portman tho.