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Thanks. It has indeed been down multiple times recently, both for active DDoS and for maintenance in response. A week ago, there was a post titled “Fastmail is having problems agai…

By the way, is the “yet” what is regarded as “editorialized”? There’s hardly any “original title”, apart from frequently changing status updates in the body. https://news.ycombinat…

Their response from a few days ago, including mentions of similar services affected, e.g. Mailbox.org and Posteo: https://fastmail.blog/company/fastmail-fights-off-ransom-cyb...

Analysis of the same tracking mechanisms from September 2018, and its discussion on HN late last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21034849

Popularized by Dwight Eisenhower in the 1950s, as per https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/18/planning/

There is a very old version of this, indeed: “Plans are worthless when the fighting is once begun, and all depends on the inspiration of the moment.” (1877) https://quoteinvestigat…

You’re right about the gold rush being over. But what certainly remains true is that, although your product may be failing, it could be possible to identify individual features or …

For YouTube and Groupon at least, it definitely was the latter. This can be seen in the sources.

Thanks a lot for tracking that down! I would also say the change of some metadata in a non-static page is fine.