I guess I picked a good time to switch to our own server infrastructure and stop running our mailing list server out of a discount datacenter :)pic.twitter.com/GrZnm8ENov
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That's what I figured. I guess they're conceptually pretty decent for metrics and such. Just a shame they all seem to be so slow. Doesn't really matter much though, when you're running a framework of around a couple million lines of PHP code anyways. That's my job :(
Personally, I don't think they are conceptually decent. I think people use them because it's not where game developers focus their attention, so they just use the same low-quality stuff that everyone else uses.
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