http://lobste.rs has a really great "we're down for maintenance" pagepic.twitter.com/IdhFPr4LqU
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http://lobste.rs is a volunteer project, if you want to volunteer your time to make them HA, they'd probably be happy to have your help. But if you're going to say that they should spend their own time on something their users don't care about, well, why should they?
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