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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by giancarlostoro on Monday April 23, 2018 @06:59AM (#16902233)
I imagine most people spend more time reading on Wikipedia as opposed to trying to hover over every link available?
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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by larkeith on Monday April 23, 2018 @08:18AM (#16902696)
That's less than one API hit per 17 English pages viewed - the overwhelming majority of the time, users do not use this feature at all, based on these numbers.

This response is pure sophistry.

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Re:Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on... by kparaju on Monday April 23, 2018 @10:56AM (#16903919)
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the pageviews are bots/crawlers. They don't hover over links.
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