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For a text link site that lets you vote submissions up and down? Yes that's a lot. I'm sure a lot of the decisions at reddit corp were along the lines of, "well
by degenerate 10y ago
For a text link site that lets you vote submissions up and down? Yes that's a lot. I'm sure a lot of the decisions at reddit corp were along the lines of, "well, we can't go back and change that now, so let's do whatever we need to fix it and move forward" AKA lots of RAM and caching all over the place.
- mwpmaybe 10y agoIf a company is grossing $20MM/year and stands to improve that by more than 0.75% by having a faster site, then yes, it makes sense to spend 0.75% of your revenue to do so.
- flashman 10y agoOne of my favourite breeds of internet comment is "I'm sure five competent engineers could run Reddit at its current scale."
- praneshp 10y agoIf you think that's all reddit is (text link, with up and down), you have to go use it a little bit. Subreddits, comments, self-hosted images, etc disagree.