alt Hacker NewsMan if only there was such a thing as good manners, good behaviour, accepted practices from a community to not massively hammer servers. If only these websites had been up for a decade with very few problems, before a notoriously manipulative, lying, deceiving, abusive company that makes money off of child abusers came in and just went hurr durr free data in the WORST possible way instead of just politely asking for a dump.
Internet is untrusted network, there are a lot of malicious and gray actors. There is no community here.
it is in fact engineering incompetence and loose engineering, if you cant handle a burst of traffic