I do security consulting and as such see many processes and infrastructures of companies.

I am not saying that mitigating costs is a bad idea. I am saying that Twitter, according to publicly available information, is doing a piss-poor job at it.

Twitter earns money from users and advertisers. As such availability (their servers being reachable and functioning) should be one of their highest concerns so that they can keep their revenue. However, they are now limiting free users, have a poor server performance and destroying their tweet embeds in other websites.

That means that they have taken no measures (or bad ones) to keep their core business running: People looking at ads. This will cost them a lot in missed revenue which they cannot afford.

Generally (this is complicated and depends on a lot of things) you would first make a migration plan and then set up a second infrastructure as planned. You would run both simultaneously to confirm that the new infra works as intended before completely switching over. NOW and only now you can cancel your old contracts and turn off the old one.

While that may be more expensive before being fully finished, that is to be expected for migrating - it will be very expensive internally as well due to opportunity costs. But in the long run it should be cheaper… If everything works as expected.

I hope you understand now what I mean :) Migrations like that are laaarge undertakings that need many skilled people, especially in management to prevent exactly the problems Twitter is facing.

Don’t be disappointed because of a variety of opinions or experiences :) Echo chambers are harmful and I don’t think that the other person is necessarily evangelizing/defending!

Lol, I’m regularly working with companies such as Twitter as a consultant :)

There is literally no reason to do it like that other than incompetence. Platform migrations, especially for something as large as Twitter, are incredibly large undertakings that need a lot of skilled people. All those skilled people have long continued their careers at other companies.

You don’t need to know how Twitter is run, that is simply IT and business management 102.

There is literally no reason to do it like that other than incompetence. Platform migrations, especially for something as large as Twitter, are incredibly large undertakings that need a lot of skilled people. All those skilled people have long continued their careers at other companies.

You don’t need to know how Twitter is run, that is simply IT and business management 102.

No, letting your contract run out before you have properly migrated is not a reasonable strategy, it’s mind-boggingly stupid and pathetic.

Depends on where you live :p It just got to 32°C here and I’m dying. I love my 15°C.

God damn. In Austria I’m paying 35€ for 250/250, and am still looking over to the Romanians with longing eyes. Data caps are only on mobile - which is still questionable in my eyes.

Oh that kinda seems like a bad sign regarding proper data validation. Hopefully it’s just a small bug and not part of a larger issue.

The server can see your IP when you connect to it and IPs are not sensitive either way. That’s not a privacy issue.

Try turning off the tracking protection in Firefox for lemmy. Also try turning off adguard.

I suspect you’ll have something that is blocking the proper requests from going out. Though I’m not really familiar with fediverse stuff.