[Noisebridge-discuss] Human powereed DDOS idea

[Glen Jarvis]

> actually, they just installed new servers a couple of weeks ago, and  
> figured this was a fun way of stress testing them :-)

They were modifying code an hour before as well and took the site down  
for a bit in preparation...  Not the best QA I've ever seen :(

And, I wouldn't have minded if all sales were completed within a few  
minutes and I missed out. I'd known it was truly first-come-first- 
served. But, instead, it was whoever was lucky enough to get  
through... and, inefficient on all fronts (ours and theirs)..

To be fair, though, I don't think they thought this would be as  
popular as it was. It hit slashdot around an hour before and was also  
on the #1 Google trend.

With that said, however, it still worked out. They have a lot of  
advertising/traffic coming in (even now) from the promotion.. So,  
quite a few people were disappointed, but I bet they still made a lot  
of new people happy. Who knows, maybe they'll make so much money that  
they'll go back, look at people who couldn't get through (i.e., still  
have things in their baskets but were trying to check out), and give  
us a discount or another promotion..

Glen
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