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It did happen to me, but only a few times and it was transient, it seemed like the frontend can't reach the settings DB intermittently.
by saati 6y ago
It did happen to me, but only a few times and it was transient, it seemed like the frontend can't reach the settings DB intermittently.
- prophesi 6y agoI'm really not sure if I can attribute Hanlon's razor to this. When you log in, that's by definition hitting the database, and should return your settings. Place that in a cookie/localstorage and it should still know your settings offline.
- saati 6y agoThere is no single database at the scale reddit operates.
- prophesi 6y agoMy bad, *a database. I'm pretty sure I saw in an AMA that Reddit has an Accounts database (maybe split further by sharding) which I'd assume holds your settings as well. But I rescind my point; it could very well be attributed to database infrastructure issues, whether that's hitting a shard with stale data, or splitting account settings to its own DB that it can't access when you log in.
- weaksauce 6y agoat this point they should have those setting at an equilibrium