An Interest In:
Web News this Week
- March 29, 2024
- March 28, 2024
- March 27, 2024
- March 26, 2024
- March 25, 2024
- March 24, 2024
- March 23, 2024
Some of Our Sources
- Slashdot
- BoingBoing
- Spoon Graphics
- Smashing Magazine
- Web Designer Depot
- Fudge Graphics
- CSS Globe
- Design Modo
- Codrops
- Hashedout
Help Webnuz
Referal links:
March 23, 2019 03:34 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Hol2POEXRzw/online-petition-site-crashed-by-millions-of-cancel-brexit-signers
Online Petition Site Crashed By Millions of 'Cancel Brexit' Signers
"More than 3 million people have signed a petition to cancel Brexit on the U.K. government's official petitions website -- so many that the website crashed multiple times," reports Time:The petition had received some 600,000 signatures at a rate of 1,500 every 60 seconds before the site crashed at about 9 a.m. U.K. time on Thursday, the Guardian reported. By mid afternoon, the site was back online but suffering intermittent outages. There were 2 million signatures by Thursday evening and 3 million by midday Friday... The U.K. government must now allow a debate on the petition's contents in parliament. The Guardian notes that the CTO of company that built the petition site had bragged in a tweet Wednesday that the 1,000 signatures per minute was "Not too bad, but nowhere near crashing the site --you all need to try harder tomorrow." By the next morning he had tweeted âoeWell done everyone -- the site crashed because calculating the trending count became too much of a load on the database."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/Hol2POEXRzw/online-petition-site-crashed-by-millions-of-cancel-brexit-signers
Share this article:
Tweet
View Full Article
Slashdot
Slashdot was originally created in September of 1997 by Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda. Today it is owned by Geeknet, Inc..More About this Source Visit Slashdot