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I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should

• pavs 11y ago
  Its a lot more than that I am sure. Considering its the 10th most visited site. Handling 1000s of comments per second (if not more), among other things, is no trivial thing. Their shadowbanning is the worst, I have an 8 year old account and I was shaddowbanned countless time, I was finally un-shadowbanned after years of whining about it. I have a feeling Spez will get this right. Lets see.
• praneshp 11y ago
  I'm always logged in into reddit, but have no personalizations (like favorite subreddit, etc). I know that doesn't really guarantee anything, but reddit still borks at peak time for me. I'd assume it's very little compute for my personalization to load.
• bluecalm 11y ago
  Maybe they serve more cached content to not logged users while being more careful about serving up-to-date one to the logged ones? It's just a wild guess I have no idea how it works.
  • dublinben 11y ago
    Reddit definitely makes use of it's CDN and caching for logged out users. Since they make up the significant proportion (exact statistics escape me) of visitors, it's not surprising that's where their effort has been directed. In contrast, every page load by a logged-in user requires unique database queries for things like vote status on submissions and comments.