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> that's just plain old developer incompetence People who make flippant comments like this have most certainly never worked at high scale sites. If you had, y
by midev 5y ago
> that's just plain old developer incompetence
People who make flippant comments like this have most certainly never worked at high scale sites.
If you had, you'd appreciate the challenges when you're one of the biggest sites on the Internet.
- edgyquant 5y agoWhile this is true, Reddit is definitely the worst of the big sites when it comes to useability.
- Stratoscope 5y agoNot even close. Nextdoor is way ahead of Reddit in the unusability wars. At least Reddit still offers https://old.reddit.com https://old.reddit.com.
- edgyquant 5y agoI've never even heard of nextdoor, and it's ranked way below reddit in terms of most visited sites https://www.similarweb.com/website/nextdoor.com/#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/nextdoor.com/#overview https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/ https://www.similarweb.com/website/reddit.com/
- Stratoscope 5y agoOf course I could say I've never heard of similarweb.com. But let's not quibble over which site is bigger. Trust me, you ain't seen bad until you've seen Nextdoor.
- edgyquant 5y agoThat would be irrelevant since I never claimed similarweb to be a website comparable in traffic and scale to Reddit. We are discussing how Reddit is the worst implementation of one of the top websites on the planet. I never said there weren’t worse websites but show me one with Reddit like traffic that is worse.
- mdoms 5y agoI have worked on very high scale sites including ones that get shit on regularly on hacker news - Jira Cloud. I don't care where you work, there's no excuse for the amount of downtime reddit experiences. It's incompetence, and I don't care if you think I'm being a big meany.