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In reply to the discussion: Why is DU's popularity waning? (Title edited, explanation within.) [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)who access the web. In fact, the subset it examines are old farts who aren't using the latest technology, so that makes their data doubly useless.
You might want to ask the admins if they've increased their server capability--I suspect they have. For that reason they'd be better able to handle huge upswings in traffic, and not have to use the same old methodologies that they used back in the old days when "space" on the net as pricier to purchase. They couldl have twice the number of "customers" with newer equipment, and not have a need to go to any "defcon" at all.
I'm sure their access cababilities have increased by leaps and bounds--they aren't still using fourteen year old equipment that they had when they first rolled this game out.