Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
There's a lot of wishy washy language in that post. If you look at the 2nd part, they say a lot but don't exactly say what went wrong.
They say that it was a communication issue between the server that handles the lottery and the server that handles the housing data. Not sure how that is them not saying what went wrong.

Could have been a network issue.
Could have been a database deadlock of some sort (seems most likely if the lotteries were all done at the same time).

I'm not sure that any additional details would necessarily change anything. I guess I'm confused on what more you were expecting.