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>Also from their latest blog post, it looks like they're just spending the 'reddit gold' money on more hardware! And hiring a designer! Because, you know, that
by commandar 16y ago
>Also from their latest blog post, it looks like they're just spending the 'reddit gold' money on more hardware!
And hiring a designer! Because, you know, that'll fix their load issues.
- protomyth 16y agojoking aside, a good designer can save you bandwidth money if they know what they are doing. (please note I used the word "good")
- axod 16y agoFrom elsewhere, only 10% of the cost is bandwidth. 90% is CPU?!!! Because Reddit is so computationally expensive apparently...
- masklinn 16y agoConsidering reddit's current bare-bones design, a designer would have a hard time coming up with something eating less bandwidth, lest he removed all colors.
- protomyth 16y agoYou can waste a lot of bytes on a bar-bones design if done poorly. A couple of years ago there was a blog post (can't find it now) about a designer redoing slashdot.org using css and that redesign had a pretty large % change in size.
- cheald 16y agoSlashdot was tables-based back in the day, which can't help but be verbose. :) (The point stands, though, that "basic" doesn't mean "light").