I ran a fairly large blog commenting platform in ~2001 and was taken by surprise when performance tanked because some blog entries suddenly had tens of thousands of comments.

Turns out Japanese teenagers were picking a random blog each day and using the comments as a chatroom.

Fun episode! I worked at AWS at the time (DynamoDB Infrastructure). This was a memorable final on call shift. Some say you can still hear the chorus of pagers if you listen close enough.

what do you like about it?

worse than vista? wow

Be eyes wide open about tipping too: These apps regularly trick consumers into tipping that doesn’t end up in workers pockets.