I'm not sure what is more ridiculous: that they disabled the site without warning or that they were too lazy to look at their logs or do a simple Google search to find out that Hacker News is real site with lots of regular traffic.
What I really loved is that they just demonstrated a fair degree of incompetence to a site used pretty much exclusively by people who are very good potential customers! This site is a wet-dream for their marketing department.
What they should have done is upgrade the website to a dedicated server for free and let that news hit the front page.
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I'm not sure what is more ridiculous: that they disabled the site without warning or that they were too lazy to look at their logs or do a simple Google search to find out that Hacker News is real site with lots of regular traffic.
What I really loved is that they just demonstrated a fair degree of incompetence to a site used pretty much exclusively by people who are very good potential customers! This site is a wet-dream for their marketing department.
What they should have done is upgrade the website to a dedicated server for free and let that news hit the front page.
Well, maybe upgrade for free, with a time limit, and an email saying "if we don't hear from you in x days, we'll shut 'er down."