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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by Analemma_ on Thursday October 29, 2020 @03:55PM (#24934938)
Not to mention Reddit doesn't crash when HN links to it, whereas it seems like his blog does.
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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by abnercoimbre on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:01PM (#24935011)
Meta point: Oh so that's what happened. It occurs so frequently that I'm sworried about the lack of robustness against this phenomenon.
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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by cpach on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:11PM (#24935155)
That’s easily fixed though, e.g. by using Cloudfront or something similar.
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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by cortesoft on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:32PM (#24935412)
If it is that easy to fix, then why does it happen over and over and over with posts on HN? There is obviously enough of a barrier (either in time or cost) that keeps everyone from doing it.
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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by outworlder on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:45PM (#24935573)
Because it's easy to fix, but the effort is not _zero_

Also, people may not realize this is a problem until it actually becomes a problem. In the mean time they will be happily rendering stuff on every page load, after fetching (static!) data from mysql on every single request.

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Re:Don't contribute anything relevant in web forums by jnwatson on Thursday October 29, 2020 @04:51PM (#24935668)
It also takes time and money to test.
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