Growing pains

[Jeff Nowakowski]

On 05/03/2012 10:50 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Just letting you all know we're working on the frustrating and
> increasingly frequent "Load at xx.xx, try again later" errors when
> reading this forum through NNTP. They are caused by a significant growth
> spurt in newsgroup readership that occurred in recent times. We are
> working with our provider to fix these issues.

Out of curiosity, can we get some numbers on the number of concurrent 
users that are causing the problems? I'm surprised that a modern machine 
would have trouble keeping up with newsgroup traffic. I figure it is 
either broken software or the machine is actually busy doing something else.