I think that all services will have downtime. No matter how much you prepare, have redundant systems, or audit, there will periodically be a black swan event that is completely unlike whatever you've experienced before. It even happens to Google!
From Matt Mullenweg
In my home office, I have two large, 30-inch computer monitors - a Mac and a PC. They share the same mouse and keyboard, so I can type or copy and paste between them. I'll typically do Web stuff on the Mac and e-mail and chat stuff on the PC.
Akismet started on a $70 dollar-a-month server. Anyone can scrape together $70.
I'm an investor in MakerBot, which is a good example of the 'thingiverse'. The idea of applying collaboration and rapid iteration to things that we interact with and hold in our hands every day is super revolutionary.
Much of the lifeblood of blogs is search engines - more than half the traffic for most blogs.
People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
Red notification bubbles on any icon, including mail, drive me crazy.
Everybody jokes about that old story about the world only needing five computers, but when you think about it, that's where we're heading.
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time!
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