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Every programmer sees message boards and quickly runs down a database schema for users, comments, and upvotes, because they're all trivial and almost identical.
by hyperhello 3y ago
Every programmer sees message boards and quickly runs down a database schema for users, comments, and upvotes, because they're all trivial and almost identical. The user base that builds up is the value. In the case of Reddit, I don't mean to imply positive value, but that's the value.
- causal 3y agoThe question is how they managed to make such a commodity operation so dang expensive to run.