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Ask HN/PG: Leaderboard acting strange?
This morning I was about 100 short of the leaderboard and made two submissions that got me about 60 points. A minute ago I was 95th and the 100th spot was at 3900 but now I'm 98th with the last spot at 4072. Any idea what's up with the fluctuating numbers?
- pg 17y agoI just restarted the server. Users are lazily loaded, so the leaderboard will look odd for a brief period after a restart.
- davidw 17y agoWhere's nickb?
- pg 17y agoA couple weeks ago I added a recency threshold for the leaderboard. It's currently 100 days.
- ivankirigin 17y agoThe 'submitted' link on the profile basically doesn't work http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ivankirigin http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ivankirigin I suppose it is related to the lazy loading?
- pg 17y agoYes, items are lazily loaded too. Responses to http requests get killed after 30 sec, so if the server has to load too much stuff to satisfy a request, it will die first. It's always been this way. After the server has been running for a bit it stops being a problem.
- ivankirigin 17y agoPerhaps you should hide features that are likely going to be unavailable if the server recently restarted. No need to send users down a rabbit hole, and certainly no need to waste the cycles on your machine.
- icey 17y agoOr limit it to far fewer results. I click the submissions link pretty frequently from my own profile as an easy way to check up on conversations on threads I've started. Now I feel kind of bad for doing it that way.
- bdfh42 17y agoAnd you care bacause?
- lincolnq 17y agoI'd be interested to see what fraction of the leaderboard users' karma comes from comments vs. stories.