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A Note On Thursday's Downtime
If you were browsing the site on Thursday, you may have noticed that we went static for a big chunk of the day. A few of you asked what the deal was, so here's quick follow-up. The short version is that a storage fault led to significant filesystem corruption, and we had to restore a massive amount of data from backups. There's a post at the SourceForge blog going into a bit more detail, and describing the steps our Siteops team took (and is still taking) to restore service. (Slashdot and SourceForge share a corporate overlord, as well as a fair bit of infrastructure.)
Lately I have noticed quite a fair bit less of the typical trolls.
An increase in numbers has resulted in an increase in their diversity - plus there's so little time when they've so many places to go in their desperate battle for attention. The troll union proposed hot-bedding and time-sharing but, for obvious reason, were unable to get the propositions ratified.
Noted troll think tank UnderTheBridgeWatch, recently published a report predicting that the recent balkanization of troll unions due to a large number of them getting married (the others just want to sleep around) under the new gay marriage laws will further increase the diversity of their appearance. Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.
Unicode, shcmunicode... they're adding REAL features, like social media icons, polls disguised as articles, hawt new barfy web-2-oh skinz, and the sexy removal of the "read more" link. Because BUZZFEED!
Yes, but they have to kill you after they restore your data.
Try Chinese gov't instead.
Table-ized A.I.
Maybe somebody from Dice downloaded something from Sourceforge and installed it on their servers?