Quote Originally Posted by FinagleABagel View Post
The thing they likely did not account for is the the extent of how bad some infrastructure is and how poor some people's connections are. That isn't a problem of integration at SE, that was a problem with assumptions very early in the developmental cycle.
I don't know a lot about network things and whatnot, but I do know that places like Korea and Japan have internet that is leaps and bounds above anything available in the US. To me, a great deal of this problem reeks of SE's inability to see beyond the borders of Japan, for the same reason they gave the entire western hemisphere the same number of servers (in a single datacenter) as one island nation.

It simply never once crossed their mind that what works in Japan wouldn't work for the rest of the world.