Gotdotnet Workspaces are great.

Gotdotnet Workspaces suck.

Gotdotnet is down over half the time.  Sourceforge has much better performance.  Why?  Is it the technology used?  Is it the network infrastructure?  What?  We demand to know what it is, so we can learn from it.  Ron Jacobs said he knows the guys who is newly taking over the responsibility for this.   I feel bad for a guy who steps into a mess like that.  But I greatly respect such a person as well.  I want to see a patterns and practices article or study on this.  Not only would it show that Microsoft is human (and sometimes makes mistakes), but it would help us learn how to design a site that will receive more hits than most .Net developers will ever see on their sites.  Microsoft needs to make fun of itself every now and then as an entity.  The worse thing to do is pretend that everything is fine.

I think the reference by Rory in Rory and Scott go to TechEd - A love story is absolutely hilarious.