We've been struggling with that particular issue all night (it's been a long night). We think we finally have it resolved.

Sorry about the problems. It ended up being a more "eventful" soft launch than we expected.

It's run by marketers, after all.

And HN is written/run by a developer who made his fortune building web apps, yet it still manages to average a 5+ second page load time. What's your point?

+1, I keep running into issues trying to login with Twitter.

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