@admin Makes sense to close them. I can't imagine this instance taking very more users without serious problems. Each instance should really cap the number of registrations to prevent data overflow / DOS.
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@taoeffect @admin Actually, it's quite the opposite: scaling up improves availability because with scale you can afford more redundancy and more sysadmins at a lower cost per user.
@taoeffect @admin Wikipedia scaled up to billions of users just with donations (not to mention the millions of volunteer editors).
Nowadays, Wikimedia has a funny problem: having more money in the bank than good ideas to spend it on and talented project leads execute those ideas.
@codewiz @admin You bring up a valid point. It's up to @angristan if he wants to take that approach. If he doesn't, then closing registrations is the right thing to do.