Comment on The Elon / Trump interview on X started with an immediate tech disaster

WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Its probably fairly straightforward:

  Their new format and infrastructure for video hosting was not properly tested, and they did not expect the amount of bandwidth needed to support viewership demand.

  Basically, same thing as a modern AAA live service game launch.

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  • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Except with a modern AAA game, they have an understanding on how things work. This clown doesn’t.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh, my sweet child, no they don’t xP

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      • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, the devs and server techs know what’s going on, its the execs and middle managers that need to get a live service on a shoestring budged to make the shareholders happy that you made them 25% more profit than last quarter.

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      • NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I enjoyed this way more than I probably should have lol.

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      • InternetUser2012@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You really think an AAA game isn’t more capable than a platform owned and run by Musk? They guy who fired everyone that would make sure shit like that worked. Come on man, the sweet child comment is cute but you’re comparing New York City to some bumfuck town in Indiana.

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    • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am remembering a lot of AAA games in the past two years that have launched and basically been unplayable for a day to two weeks due to some kind of combination of not enough servers, garbage netcode, or other game breaking bugs.

      Elon just went to a different clown college.

      (And no, I don’t care if the devs are good at their jobs but management fucked them! is the defense for AAA games. Sure, maybe that’s correct on an internal level. Doesn’t really matter for a consumable product. Would be nice if the idiot asshats got laughed out of the industry instead of new car collections, golden parachutes, but thats a whole 'nother discussion)

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  • xavier666@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I remember they just turned “off” their microservice architechture, or the part which allows for autoscaling as per incoming load. So the servers just reached 100% utilization and crashed.

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  • PwnTra1n@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    how many russian twitter bots in one place does it take to crash twitter?

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    • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      probably not very many because it only took a single psychotic new owner to do that when he started pulling servers out of a sacramento data center a couple years back, with no engineering and no planning.

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      • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I am still hopeful the Twitter HQ will become a homeless shelter one way or another: Looks like Musky boy just hasn’t been paying rent, so, fingers crossed.

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  • blackbelt352@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Its probably just… a distributed amount of viewers requesting more bandwidth than they expected/knew how to serve.

    So a Group Hug of Death.

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  • rayyy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Xhitters full. Don’t light a match or it will blow - it sucks though.

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  • suction@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    So they’re applying the Tesla method to Twitter now

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• SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Twitter is such a poorly run site

  It’s run by the guy that started to unplug servers at night so I’m assuming bad infrastructure

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• rsuri@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Time to bring back the fail whale

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Make it a Starship exploding with dogecoins flying out of it.

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• OlinOfTheHillPeople@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Vichy Twitter

  I’m stealing this! It’s way too good!

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  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I stole it myself, so you’re welcome to it.

    I have no idea who originated it, but from the first time I saw it, I haven’t used anything else. It just so perfectly sums it up.

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    • yopla@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If that a ref to the French government of Vichy that collaborated with the Nazi regime and actively participated in it’s genocidal project or something else I don’t get ?

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      • WatDabney@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes - that’s exactly what it is. Vichy Twitter is to historical Twitter as Vichy France was to historical France.

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