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Everyone is reading the same thing on reddit, just different combinations of the same thing. Reddit is just a combination of multiple newspapers masquerading as
by pg_bot 8y ago
Everyone is reading the same thing on reddit, just different combinations of the same thing. Reddit is just a combination of multiple newspapers masquerading as a single custom newspaper. No reason why the internals should leak to what is shown to the user. You could keep the exact same user experience that you have today and guarantee that the site never falls over.
You need to make the distinction between UX and Operations. Everything the user sees still lives under the same structure as today but internally it is structured so that you don't overload yourself and if you do fail, those failures are isolated and don't take down the rest of the site.
- cagenut 8y agoEveryone is reading the same thing on reddit, just different combinations of the same thing. this is categorically untrue, you don't seem to understand reddit. Reddit is just a combination of multiple newspapers masquerading as a single custom newspaper. that is exactly the anachronistic thinking that leads you down this path. its movable type vs wordpress all over again. wordpress won. the engineering constraint of pre-calculating caches is worse, in the long run, than the occasional outage for casual/non-logged-in users. its optimizing for the wrong audience, it is a long slow path to failure.