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To cut load. I'm not sure it helped much though, so I may not keep it.
by pg 16y ago
To cut load. I'm not sure it helped much though, so I may not keep it.
- tommi 16y agoGood. Your comment is the most valuable answer in this thread and it was the last one to show on first page.
- estel 16y agoIndeed, I had to go below the fold.
- seancron 16y agoI almost missed this comment because it was just barely above the fold.
- cstuder 16y agoIt's actually below the fold now.
- acqq 16y agoHow about displaying the comments "shallower": if some discussion ("a branch in the comments") goes too deep, maybe that's what doesn't have to be on the same page, as it's obviously something where a lot of arguments and counterarguments occur, and not something where the biggest insight is to be expected. Such comment handling would however certainly motivate people to "post without the parent."
- danvet 16y agoI'd very much welcome that. My gut feeling is that on quite a few posts, discussion seems to stick to the first comment. I'm assuming that starts to happen as soon as this top-level comment has enough upvotes to quickly displace any new postings. I think preventing such "sticky" threads from clobbering the first pages of comments may add some decent value to the discussion. Especially in brining in different aspects and povs, perhaps sometimes yielding a more balanced discussion.
- nitrogen 16y agoIs there some way the HN community could help with the load, or some pathological behavior that a lot of us are doing that could be replaced by behavior that's easier on the server(s)?
- Eliezer 16y agoEr, that doesn't seem like a good reason to downgrade the UI of something important. I don't know how much money it takes to keep HN running, but would just buying ten times as much computing power really be a significant expense for YCombinator, compared to the dealflow from HN?
- akkartik 16y agoI suspect the bottleneck isn't cost so much as the mental bandwidth to switch hosts, etc. It would be a context switch for PG/RTM/bringing someone else up to speed on arc. HN's just naturally lagging other priorities. --- Farther in the future: HN's arc webserver uses simple flat files for storage, so moving from one host to two is probably a big context switch as well. I wonder what the current server's specs are, and how long we have until that kinda-sorta-Y2K-like barrier.
- axod 16y agoor rewrite it in a more efficient language/runtime would likely have more effect.
- pg 16y agoAs far as I know, the current server has close to the fastest processor available.
- akkartik 16y agoRAM might matter more for news.
- gokhan 16y agoIf you decide to keep it, please keep displaying the header on subsequent pages. Ajax loading the rest on the first page is better, though.
- paolomaffei 16y agoit's fun that this answer is below the fold. I wouldn't keep it.