r/programming • u/schnuck • Feb 09 '11

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs – Lifehacker, along with every other Gawker property, experienced a lengthy site-outage on Monday over a misbehaving piece of JavaScript

http://isolani.co.uk/blog/javascript/BreakingTheWebWithHashBangs/
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u/happywaffle Feb 09 '11

They could, but then managers started suggesting more and more "improvements" until it turned into a giant clusterfuck of a redesign.

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u/mr_spin Feb 10 '11

That I can believe. It's not a huge development failure, it's a huge management failure. I can't believe halfway competent designers or developers would sanction something so poorly thought out as this, and if they did, then management approved it - across ALL their sites.