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Making Disqus faster

• bbatsell 17y ago
  I'm pretty amazed it wasn't architected this way from the beginning. Having to generate a monolithic JS file with every comment thread for every pageload for every user? Yikes.
  • simanyay 17y ago
    Well, it is not for every comment thread for every page load for every user. For anonymous page views we cache the output so unless there is a new comment (or other changes to a thread) we serve cached (previously generated) javascript file.
  • bandhunt 17y ago
    Why optimize before they need to? They've done well so far with the current js loading and now they're optimizing b/c it's time.
    • codexon 17y ago
      Because it seems to use up a lot of bandwidth and slows the client. I just looked at the JS in Firebug, and it's over 100kb for the static portion.
      • bandhunt 17y ago
        It was rhetorical question. Build your app fast. Then optimize later, when you have scale.
• greyman 17y ago
  Maybe unrelated, I just want to point out that what I don't like about Disqus is not it's speed, but that the whole display of their stuff is very cluttered.