john_onion

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   by john_onion 17y ago

   I can confirm that videos, articles, images, 404 pages are all served by a CDN. Our 404 pages were not cached by the CDN. Allowing them to be cached reduced the origin penetration rate substantially enough to amount to a 66% reduction in
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   by john_onion 17y ago

   If it makes you feel any better, there are approximately 5000 404s in links "in the wild" (according to google crawl error stats) that I have the capability of improving the quality of the redirect for. I may not be able to get 100% accura
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   by john_onion 17y ago

   Why are people so angry on the internet?
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   by john_onion 17y ago

   Those Onion web guys must be pretty dense.
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   by john_onion 17y ago

   Please see my other comments in this thread. You're making a judgement about what is happening without knowing all of the information involved in the situation. We diligently redirected as much as possible, and I'm currently managing more
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   by john_onion 17y ago

   As I said in my post below, spiders that request article_url/reddit.png or article_url/google-analytics.com/ga.gs do not get a 301 from me because they're not looking at an href of an <a> tag. They're guessing at a URL that never e
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   by john_onion 17y ago

   Okay you guys obviously aren't getting the whole picture. A minority of our links are from old content that I no longer know the urls for. We redirect everything from 5 years ago and up. Stuff originally published 6-10 years ago could po