Laura Lis Scott#BlueSky’s blank “who me?” screen has me missing old Twitter’s #FailWhale
Lilly HunterGee, Bluesky devs ... am I, the user, really supposed to be seeing stuff like this? Am I somehow failing to vibe along with you? #FailWhale
Markus TrappBei den heute andauernden Ausfällen von Bluesky denke nostalgisch an den #Failwhale von #Twitter zurück. (The Atlantic: The Story of Twitter's Fail Whale: archive.is/iFY3F)
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Timmy ist 1 fail whale.
Sean O'BrienThere was a *lot* of schadenfreude going around #Twitter X earlier this month about #cloudcomputing outages. I guess what goes around comes around. Where's the #failwhale when you need it... 🐳
Alex Russell@Moore I'm talking about all languages with standards bodies, but yes, TC39 is particularly #failwhale adjacent. There are lots of reasons, but the post-ES4 explosion of veto players at the hands of strict consensus sealed the deal:
https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-invent/
How Do Committees Fail To Invent?
Conway's Law is generally discussed in the context of organisations trying to solve a problem. But what if there are defectors? And what if they could prevent all progress without paying a price? This problem is rarely analysed for the simple reason that such an organisation would be deranged. But what if it happened regularly, and even threatened the basis of web standards?
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Coach Pāṇini ®Early Twitter users made the #FailWhale a meme.
It used to be a common thing, and people kept going back…
Malte M. WerfelUm mich in #whalebird bei openbiblio.social anzumelden, kam ich bis zum o.
Dann konnte ich nicht mehr tippen.
Früher - also früher!! - gab es dafür einen #failwhale
Dann konnte ich nicht mehr tippen.
Früher - also früher!! - gab es dafür einen #failwhale