> user-hostile behavior (modulo the port scanning lol) is endemic across US government websites

I discovered this when it was late at night and I was procrastinating going to bed and I was curious what my estimated Social Security benefit would be at retirement so I tried to log into mySSA and it said the website is closed from like 11 PM to 5 AM or something like that.

I couldn't believe it. I could understand a weekly several-hour maintenance/batch processing window, but DAILY?