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>>pg+(OP)
Hi. Could someone please explain to me why it is necessary for a service (e.g. HN) to go down while people play with the (increasingly amorphous and abstract) back end? Is it 1990?

Sorry, just hit a nerve. Like doing some OS updates (Windows) and then needing to reboot to "complete the installation". I'm sorry. That totally sucks.

>>George+Lo
HNs backend isn't very abstract. The site doesn't really use Javascript and resides on a single server.

And I agree with you on the windows issue -- except that ten plus years ago I did in fact reboot and/or shut down my computer.