On: Robinhood goes down again, during another historic...

[jeffshek]

This might be slightly unfair to Robinhood ... the time we saw volatility similar to this was in 2008. Most of the major banks had technical difficulties that day (despite being around for decades of years).

Technology and scaling are tough. Reddit, Twitter and CloudFlare have gone down in the last 12 months, despite being constantly stress-tested.

[CaptainZapp → jeffshek]

Comparing social media sites with a financial services firm is not really a valid comaprison.

Especially not when this happens for the third time in a row.