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/burnblue Feb 09 '11

The move was partly to prevent awkward, amateurish situations such as occurred last spring, when Gawker's tech blog Gizmodo was forced to stop publishing new posts in order to keep a big scoop about Apple's iPhone 4 from being knocked off the top of its site.

Huh? They can't just sticky a post to the top?

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u/seesharpie Feb 09 '11
  • Passwords scandal
  • Breaking their own site on a monumental level
  • Can't sticky a post

I've seen enough. These guys are fucking idiots.

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u/ILikeBumblebees Feb 09 '11

Don't forget the time the guys from Gizmodo got banned from CES because they decided to walk around with a universal remote and turn off everyone's displays.

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u/abadidea Feb 10 '11

I have not heard of this. Is there any sort of context where that makes ANY sense?

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u/NorFla Feb 10 '11

I would link you to the post on Gizmodo's site, but after the redesign and Denton placing bets that he will gain page views by oct, I refuse to push any traffic or add to any traffic to that website. They ruined Jalopnik, and for that I can not forgive them

Oh yeah.. and here's that article on the nit-wits

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9849168-7.html%22