[ubuntu-uk] Launchpad and the Slashdot effect

[Kirrus]

Hello,
----- "Dougie Richardson" <ddrichardson at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> There's an interesting piece on bug #59695 (decrease in hard drive
> life), for anyone who regularly follows Slashdot I should point out
> its
> a kdawson submission ;-)
> 
> Launchpad is suffering the Slashdot effect, but anyone have any
> thoughts
> on this - I suspect this is the sort of article that could
> precipitate
> into a widespread FUD campaign within a few days.

They've mitigated the problem temporarily by using apache (or some such) to redirect to a static html page with a few of the 150+ comments on the bug report.

This obviously has the dual effect of making the bug impossible to update...

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