amused by emurse

got to hear from emurse via michael a few days back, and first impression was ‘so what?’. but i am usually pretty bad at making sound judgements from first impressions, so i went back. Asked the system to download the resume I had put up when testing for the first time; the following unbranded message came up:

We’re under a ton of load right now from unexpected recent press, and we’re really sorry.
Like, super duper sorry. Someone’s going to get fired kind of sorry.
Try back again in a few minutes while we get this worked out. We’re adding more servers tonight.

I am sure there’s a good reason why new ventures get to be a bit of a victim of their own success: maybe they’re like seriously bootstrapped and noone’s giving them an extra buck if they can’t show them traffic. I guess I was amused rather than annoyed ’cause it was not a critical transaction to me, but also I felt the message was fresh. Or maybe I am just a compassionate user, which is not antonymous to being a passionate user