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I think LtU is fairly low-traffic normally, so even though the content is (probably) relatively static other than the comments it might not make sense for them

by smcl 4y ago

I think LtU is fairly low-traffic normally, so even though the content is (probably) relatively static other than the comments it might not make sense for them to design it for extreme volumes of traffic. And given that this link was probably submitted to HN, a few subreddits and possibly more sites it's easy to imagine they suddenly got that kind of volume.

ebiester 4y ago
...except that it fairly regularly gets an influx of HN submissions.
- smcl 4y ago
  Yeah it gets submissions, but it doesn't usually sit at the top of the front page for an hour (+ whatever other sites this news item got submitted to)