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GETTR?

Warp12 said:
It's not hard to imagine a new venture like this having startup woes, right?
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The opposite, in the real world - a startup having the level of screw-up GETTR has is unacceptable, and unknown among successful startups.

Building a brand requires meticulous planning and testing, neither of which appears to be the case with GETTR.

Warp12 said:
There are a ton of valid reasons to bash this effort, but that is pretty low on my list, tbh.
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Whereas I think it's number one - a new site, opposing Twitter, would want to be in tip-top condition from the first second.

I have finally been able to register, and the numbers are much less than ordinary.

The only person posting seems to be Jason Miller, and some of his posts have been re-posted in the tens of times.

Pathetic.
 
Whereas I think it's number one - a new site, opposing Twitter, would want to be in tip-top condition from the first second.
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I guess I don't even find their rhetoric about opposing Twitter to be remotely credible. In fact, I find it laughable. So my expectations are pretty low. :D
 
Nobody but me seems to be reminded of the reactions when the Obamacare website had problems at first too.
 
Delvo said:
Nobody but me seems to be reminded of the reactions when the Obamacare website had problems at first too.
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That was a Governmental paid-for site that was trying to serve multiple states and different insurance options for millions of people, not a private social media site with a few hundred users that wants to compete with Twitter.
 
PhantomWolf said:
That was a Governmental paid-for site that was trying to serve multiple states and different insurance options for millions of people, not a private social media site with a few hundred users that wants to compete with Twitter.
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Agree, a ridiculous comparison, but at least it moved the discussion away from GETTR and to Obama. That was the intent, I'm sure.

What else do the trump defenders have?
 
Belz... said:
Gods, can't these right-wingers manage technology?
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Remember how, when Jimmy Carter was elected President, Americans started eating more peanuts, because that was Carter's favorite snack, and lots of Americans have this weird obsession with imitating the President?

Well, "omni-incompetence" was Trump's peanuts.
 
PhantomWolf said:
Re: GETTR site launching problems...
Nobody but me seems to be reminded of the reactions when the Obamacare website had problems at first too.
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That was a Governmental paid-for site that was trying to serve multiple states and different insurance options for millions of people, not a private social media site with a few hundred users that wants to compete with Twitter.
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The proper way to launch a site like GETTR is not to do a big, "Look at us!" release, but to start small, get any bugs worked out while the system isn't popular enough to warrant a lot of general attention.

I seem to remember than when google added new email features, they did it on an invitation-only basis. This would have limited initial growth, but if there were any problems, they would have been uncovered before they would have potentially impacted millions of people.

Of course, a government-wide health insurance site doesn't have the same opportunity to allow 'slow growth' as a private social media site.
 
Delvo said:
Nobody but me seems to be reminded of the reactions when the Obamacare website had problems at first too.
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I was reminded of that immediately. One of the major moments in website rollout failure in recent history. Another one was Cuil, a search website that was supposed to take on Google.

PhantomWolf said:
That was a Governmental paid-for site that was trying to serve multiple states and different insurance options for millions of people, not a private social media site with a few hundred users that wants to compete with Twitter.
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The fact that it was trying to serve multiple states for millions of people isn't really that relevant when users were not even able to create user accounts. It may as well have been a site for billions of users to solve all the world's problems.
 
sir drinks-a-lot said:
I was reminded of that immediately. One of the major moments in website rollout failure in recent history. Another one was Cuil, a search website that was supposed to take on Google.



The fact that it was trying to serve multiple states for millions of people isn't really that relevant when users were not even able to create user accounts. It may as well have been a site for billions of users to solve all the world's problems.
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Actually, that was exactly one of, if not the, most important factors for why the website crashed according to the IG's investigation released in 2016:

We now know why the debut of the Obamacare health insurance shopping website was such a failure that only six people in the entire country got it to work well enough to select coverage on the day it launched in 2013.
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The www.healthcare.gov website, a tool critical to achieving the Affordable Care Act's goal of providing health insurance to all, faced "a high risk of failure" from the start because it was a complicated task on a fixed deadline, according to the study released Tuesday by the inspector general for the Department of Health and Human Services.
It ultimately failed because of several factors, the inspector general concluded, including poor technical decisions and wasting too much time developing policy and not enough time creating the website.

"The corrections were too weak and late to avert the poor outcome," the inspector general concluded.
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As with anything in Washington, politics interfered, too.

Some states balked at participating in Obamacare, creating uncertainties over whether states would build their own online marketplaces or rely on the federal one. Questions about future funding from Congress and the Supreme Court's review of the insurance mandate, which was not decided until 2012, also loomed over the project.
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Four days before the deadline, officials realized that the website's capacity was far too limited to support the projected number of people who would be using it simultaneously. Officials drove to the offices of the main contractor and told them to double the capacity. The contractor pulled it off, but it still wasn't enough.

Healthcare.gov crashed within two hours of its launch on Oct. 1, 2013.

As many as 250,000 people had tried using it at once, much greater than the planned capacity, the inspector general said in its report. By the end of the day, only six people were able to submit an application and select a health plan.
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https://www.mcall.com/news/watchdog/mc-obamacare-website-failure-watchdog-20160224-column.html
 
Warp12 said:
I'm sure there will be plenty of reminiscing about the 2016 election, on GETTR. Quite frankly, that is enough feel-good material to last supporters a lifetime.
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As the 2020 election has provided for those who actually support a democracy unlike the GETTR fans.
 
I'll say one thing about GETTR - they're going to run out of American flags at the rate they use them.
 
The Atheist said:
I'll say one thing about GETTR - they're going to run out of American flags at the rate they use them.
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Can't think of anything less American than the flag, at least right now, thanks mainly to the people who flaunt it these days. Kinda kidding, kinda not.
 
Patriotism means different things to different people in the US these days. Me? I think it means supporting democracy and the sanctity of our elections, wanting a better life for everyone regardless of color, religion, sexual orientation, etc. Sadly, patriotism for many in this country means supporting an authoritarian, mentally ill, narcissistic sociopath who only cares about himself. That's not patriotism; that's being in a cult of personality.
 
Seems like this whole internet thing is kinda hard to do right, whodathunkit?

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@SALON
EXCLUSIVE: According to the hacker of Jason Miller's new right-wing social media site "Gettr," the site remains highly compromised with an "API server bug." This morning, the hacker shared with me all of my personal information, which I inputted when making an account.
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https://twitter.com/ZTPetrizzo/status/1412047951636140032

Gotta love when these CHUDs keep signing up for accidental honeytraps over and over again.
 
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