This is a companion site to my Failsafe YACCS site, illustrating how it works when the YACCS server is down. I'm faking it by just pointing the script call to a 503 Server too busy page, which imitates YACCS being unavailable at the second the blog is loaded, but then back up by the time someone can read a post and want to comment. While you could do it so that the comment links were invisible unless the remote script loaded, I expect momentary failures to be much more common than longterm failures, so I think it's better to show the links, and let people figure out that if the comment popup loads a 500 error, then that means they can't comment or read comments at the moment.

First post.