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ams6110 on Jan 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask PG: Postmortem of the outage?

Probably little. There's no ad revenue being lost, no business transactions that can't be completed, no life-saving information that can't be accessed. When you boil it down, it's a social/entertainment site, nothing anyone can't live without for a day or two.

pbhjpbhj on Jan 7, 2014 | [–]

>nothing anyone can't live without for a day or two //

On this basis can't you shutdown pretty much anything the majority use day-to-day?

ithkuil on Jan 7, 2014 | [–]

but afaik there was some dataloss, some users lost their karma and their comments.

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