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Re:Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparabl... by wruza on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:33PM (#43168207)
Also HN is not that efficient at flamewars. When a new iphone generates 2k comments, you have to logout to visit (enables cache/cdn/?), cause it stops responding otherwise. Now imagine 10 politics threads on the frontpage with thousands of flamers piling in. HN simply can’t do that. It’s a niche lisp server for discussing this week’s ai-generated ts frameworks. Politics go reddit.
Re:Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparabl... by Jtsummers on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:41PM (#43168261)
dang rewrote things so it's more efficient now. They don't have to paginate large threads anymore and performance remains good.

It used to be that a single thread with ~200 comments could slow down the server, on the front page there are 3 discussions I saw (quick scan) at or over 200 and one over 600.

Re:Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparabl... by wruza on Monday February 24, 2025 @11:45PM (#43168284)
Oh, good to know!
Re:Disclosure of personal information to DOGE “is irreparabl... by johnnyanmac on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @02:50AM (#43169307)
>Politics go reddit.

Aka completely undiscussable woth any sense of nuance, which ironically enough is a great way to bury a lede.

But on the technical side... Man, reddit cannot handle more than 500 comments, old or new. Open thst pagination and you get repeats, orphaned replies, and a disgusting amount of lag for what should ideally just be static text.