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Jeez.. Take a look at http://beta.reddit.com/ http://beta.reddit.com/ I guess this is why you don't significantly change the process. In this case, Reddit cha
by palish 19y ago
Jeez.. Take a look at http://beta.reddit.com/ http://beta.reddit.com/
I guess this is why you don't significantly change the process. In this case, Reddit changed the process of submitting comments (It's now Ajax so that it doesn't refresh the page) and now everyone is going absolutely nuts trying out the new feature.
They only saved themselves by having the beta be in a separate subreddit. Could you imagine if this was rolled out to the main page?
- nostrademons 19y agoThe massive comment-spam is because it's a beta. There are several main forces at work: 1) People know it's gonna get wiped anyway, so they aren't shy about commenting. 2) Their job is to find bugs, not to discuss things. They're being diligent. 3.) For a while, there was a bug where every time you edited a comment it would post a reply instead. A bunch of us were testing Markdown and various XSS exploits; each time we edited, a new comment was added. 4.) Another prominent bug had to do with receiving messages and comment notifications. In order to exercise that, people had to comment. 5.) Folks are testing unicode. There's a lot that can go wrong with Unicode.
- palish 19y agoOkay. I thought it was like all other betas, where people use the product the way they normally use it and report bugs, instead of consciously trying to stress it to its limits, especially with social software.