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cyranocyrano's started a Fantasy Congress League and I've just joined up, you should too! From his journal:

I have created a Fantasy Congress Team and think that you should join me in the "Power Corruption and Lies" League. I already have somebody I don't know in the group, and I think there should be more '80s song references. (My team is Stand Down Margaret.) I've decided arbitrarily that my team should be equally composed of Republicrats and Democricans, and I ignored the independent.

My team's "Stand and Deliver", which is really making me want to stack it with every corrupt, money grubbing corporate whore I can think of. If I do Ted Stevens is totally sitting in the daddy chair. Or perhaps I'll just go with a bunch of devil may care mavericks who wouldn't hesitate to stick it to the man. Of course I have no idea who they would be at this point...

Anyway the website's interface is sucky at best and infuriating at worst so be warned. Still, it sounds like too much fun to pass up.

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They have mentioned that they're getting a lot more traffic than expected--is it the actual interface or the repeated hanging and javalang errors that's sucky?

I think it's a combination of the two, for me, though, not having the ability to search easily through the Leagues was a big problem. And I haven't even gotten to the team drafting phase yet...

Yeah, that was... problematic. And I think that the interface also reflects the "holy crap look at all the traffic" problem at the root. It's probably not a badly designed interface for a couple of dozen leagues, but it is for five thousand.

Problem is you can't design a site for 5 anything if you're likely to get 5,000. And I'm not seeing much evidence that they did much of anything in the way of beta testing this before they took it live. Of course this is a high class problem, I really hope my site has to contend with a plethora of interested users right off the bat.