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> Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to
by continuations 9y ago
> Twitter’s backend was initially built on Ruby on Rails, a rudimentary web-application framework that made it nearly impossible to find a technical solution to the harassment problem.
This is probably a new low in journalism.
- kenning 9y agoCan you elaborate? I don't know much about ror and would like to know more.
- ericd 9y agoThe web framework (Ruby on Rails) has nothing to do with the ability to build anti-harassment tech.
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- liquidgecka 9y agoIts not described well at all in the article, but the instance on sticking with a RoR framework well beyond what it could rightfully scale up to is what kept us from building a great, great many features, least of which was harassment tooling. It wasn't RoR's fault beyond being the framework selected early on, and dogmatically stuck too long after it stopped helping us move forward quickly.
- elcapitan 9y agoApparently the rudimentary framework that Vanity Fair uses made it nearly impossible for the author to find a technical solution to write a fact based article.
- TAForObvReasons 9y agoPut the line in the context, and include the actual quotes from the former employees and executives: > If Twitter’s co-founders had known what it would become, a third former executive told me, “you never would have built it on a Fisher-Price infrastructure.” Instead of building a product that could scale alongside the platform, former employees say, Twitter papered over its problems by hiring more moderators. “Because this is just an ass-backward tech company, let’s throw non-scalable, low-tech solutions on top of this low-tech, non-scalable problem.” It sounds like the original people who spoke to the journalist left the impression that there were deficiencies in the base technology which may have led to the current circumstances.