Yeah, I'm going to get an account there, but the shades of imzy still haunt me. DW's beginnings were very grounded in reality and were ready for prime time when they opened; I just wish more sites did that instead of trying to combine development and infrastructure. As a person who does user testing on programs for a living, live user testing is great and everything for beta, but there's a reason you go through alpha first and have people who want to and know functional testing involved on that level.
...and have people willing to play 'how much can this system take lets bring it down' to find and confirm your limits. Yeah, you'll still have times things go to hell, but at least it won't be in perfectly predictible ways you should have known could happen.
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Date: 2018-12-04 06:59 pm (UTC)...and have people willing to play 'how much can this system take lets bring it down' to find and confirm your limits. Yeah, you'll still have times things go to hell, but at least it won't be in perfectly predictible ways you should have known could happen.