How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017)

Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) by tomc1985 on Sunday February 24, 2019 @07:12PM (#19241584)

I haven't been on IRC in years but auth has been standardized no? Msg the auth bot with your authentication phrase or you get your nick changed

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Re:How Discord Scaled Elixir to 5M Concurrent Users (2017) by lmm on Monday February 25, 2019 @04:03AM (#19244148)

Some servers do that. It's not standardised, not integrated with any other systems, and usually inherently subject to a race condition that renders it low security.

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