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That's the beauty of serving mostly read-only data - you can just cache the most frequented pages. I can't think of a time that I clicked on a link for Stack Ex

That's the beauty of serving mostly read-only data - you can just cache the most frequented pages. I can't think of a time that I clicked on a link for Stack Exchange that wasn't served via a search engine. I've never purposefully clicked a link from within Stack Exchange, and I've never posted any answers. I can thank those who do for enabling my success in my career, but I'm willing to bet that most Stack Exchange users are just like me.

prawn 8y ago
"I've never purposefully clicked a link from within Stack Exchange..." How do you resist those crazy unrelated questions in the sidebar? Currently shown for me: Did Shadowfax go to Valinor? Is it legal for company to use my work email to pretend I still work there? Why can't we play rap on piano? Can a virus destroy the BIOS of a modern computer?
- antipaul 8y ago
  These became so distracting that I applied an Adblock filter to hide the “Hot Network Questions” div, lol!
  - powvans 8y ago
    Ha! I do this too. Just the other day I was pair programming with someone who asked "why don't you have those super stupid questions on the right nav bar?"
- tinco 8y ago
  That shadowfax one, quora is horrible that way too. You're interested in one bit of canon triva one time, and the site immediately assumes that particular story is all you want to read about, every day for months. I bet gwaihir carried shadowfax to valinor.
  - viraptor 8y ago
    I don't think hot questions are tailored at all, are they? I often get questions from boards I never visited, so I assumed it's a global collection.
- baroffoos 8y ago
  That sidebar is my biggest time waster in the day.
- kkarakk 8y ago
  They changed it so you can hide hot network questions(without any karma requirement)
  - crayonixel 8y ago
    Thanks for pointing that out! Direct link for anyone else looking for it: https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences
    - borgel 8y ago
      I guess it's finally time to create an account!
- golergka 8y ago
  Well, thanks a lot, now I have no other choice but to google at least two of those.

prawn 8y ago

"I've never purposefully clicked a link from within Stack Exchange..." How do you resist those crazy unrelated questions in the sidebar? Currently shown for me: Did Shadowfax go to Valinor? Is it legal for company to use my work email to pretend I still work there? Why can't we play rap on piano? Can a virus destroy the BIOS of a modern computer?

antipaul 8y ago
These became so distracting that I applied an Adblock filter to hide the “Hot Network Questions” div, lol!
- powvans 8y ago
  Ha! I do this too. Just the other day I was pair programming with someone who asked "why don't you have those super stupid questions on the right nav bar?"
tinco 8y ago
That shadowfax one, quora is horrible that way too. You're interested in one bit of canon triva one time, and the site immediately assumes that particular story is all you want to read about, every day for months. I bet gwaihir carried shadowfax to valinor.
- viraptor 8y ago
  I don't think hot questions are tailored at all, are they? I often get questions from boards I never visited, so I assumed it's a global collection.
baroffoos 8y ago
That sidebar is my biggest time waster in the day.
kkarakk 8y ago
They changed it so you can hide hot network questions(without any karma requirement)
- crayonixel 8y ago
  Thanks for pointing that out! Direct link for anyone else looking for it: https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences https://stackoverflow.com/users/preferences
  - borgel 8y ago
    I guess it's finally time to create an account!
golergka 8y ago
Well, thanks a lot, now I have no other choice but to google at least two of those.