That would be my guess as well. It's one thing to decide you want a simple forum...

adwf on June 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tell HN: The site was offline. What changed?

That would be my guess as well. It's one thing to decide you want a simple forum and have it coded within a couple of days. It's entirely another to spend months creating a stable database library and keep it upto date with all the latest changes.

u124556 on June 10, 2014 [–]

Or you could, you know, use a more popular language.