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Looks like Orkut is lagging quite heavily. I get lots of errors and delays and friends are complaining they cannot even register in the site.

Is Orkut facing scalability issues?

Honestly, I think it scales quite well for its size (compared with some local friendster sites which apparently were not planned even for tens of thousands). It would be interesting to know what is Orkut's architecture and how it tries to ensure the scalability.

BTW what is the number of Orkut users ATM?