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And then the day off, it just fell apart massively because we basically overloaded our backend with our frontend. And so we were all dressed up with no place to go. And the entire database data layer of a firm was just in shambles for several hours while we were cleaning it up. But it really was a self-inflicted one where we were like, well, we just don't know how big it's going to be.