On 18 January 2012 23:59, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
So, this will be my last comment on this.
In the time frame we had to implement this, it wasn't possible to do a 100% blackout that would have been completely impenetrable. There were a number of suggestions that could have blacked everything out completely, but very, very likely would have broken things in a way that would have lasted more than the blackout period. We have to consider:
- Search engines
- Our caches
- Upstream caches
- API users
- Screen scrapers
- Things we didn't have time to consider <-- this is a big one
The goal was to inform as many people as possible about the effects of the bills, and I think we were effective at doing so.
The sites have gone down accidentally on numerous occasions and any user trying to access them just got an error message. The world didn't seem to end on any of those occasions...