<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>tmp5774889</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve created a temp account for this to be on the safe side :)&lt;p&gt;I work for a big (300k+ ) company with some tens of thousand office workers in CN
We are preparing since about 2 weeks to upgrade our remote access infra in China with partial success as something which would be a soft upgrade everywhere else needs to go through various levels of local subcontractors and partners of our provider&lt;p&gt;On top of that because of the Internet situation in CN it is not practically easy to use remote access via another location with higher capacity - the performance gets degraded very quickly - or use resources directly over the internet eg. RTC which is not hosted locally&lt;p&gt;I doubt that local authorities will change something in the future because of this example but one can only hope</text><parent_chain><item><author>est</author><text>Some outcomes of this morning:&lt;p&gt;1. Alibaba&amp;#x27;s teamwork app, Dingtalk, crashed around 9AM due to too many concurrent video conference saturate the server and bandwitdh&lt;p&gt;2. Tencent&amp;#x27;s for enterprise messaging app, Wechat for Business, crashed. Connection is extremely unstable&lt;p&gt;3. Baidu&amp;#x27;s office VPN was busy and employees are asked to stay disconnected to leave bandwith for sysadmins&lt;p&gt;4. Huawei&amp;#x27;s WeLink was unavailable for a while&lt;p&gt;5. Bytedance (company behind TikTok)&amp;#x27;s Lark, an online office suite like GApps was the biggest winner, only had some minor issues.&lt;p&gt;6. Zoom offered a free version to mainland users and it&amp;#x27;s extremely popular. But it lacks non-video-conf features. e.g. simple daily poll to see if your colleagues were healthy or not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ekianjo</author><text>Seems like the experiment was a success: systems have very low margins to operate.</text><parent_chain><item><author>est</author><text>Some outcomes of this morning:&lt;p&gt;1. Alibaba&amp;#x27;s teamwork app, Dingtalk, crashed around 9AM due to too many concurrent video conference saturate the server and bandwitdh&lt;p&gt;2. Tencent&amp;#x27;s for enterprise messaging app, Wechat for Business, crashed. Connection is extremely unstable&lt;p&gt;3. Baidu&amp;#x27;s office VPN was busy and employees are asked to stay disconnected to leave bandwith for sysadmins&lt;p&gt;4. Huawei&amp;#x27;s WeLink was unavailable for a while&lt;p&gt;5. Bytedance (company behind TikTok)&amp;#x27;s Lark, an online office suite like GApps was the biggest winner, only had some minor issues.&lt;p&gt;6. Zoom offered a free version to mainland users and it&amp;#x27;s extremely popular. But it lacks non-video-conf features. e.g. simple daily poll to see if your colleagues were healthy or not.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-02-02/coronavirus-forces-world-s-largest-work-from-home-experiment</url></story>