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(( This is a repost of what I shared on Reddit here https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1r05vkj/comment... but I think the context will be helpful for this group, too. Thi…

Yeeeep. I usually end up creating isolated grids with circuit networks and banks of capacitors to make it so the power production (and fuel production to feed it) can never shut do…

(I work at Discord in infrastructure.) We use data services to do "data related things" that make sense to do at a central proxy layer. This may include caching/coalescing/other lo…

Our messaging stack is not currently multi-regional, unfortunately. This is in the works, though, but it's a fairly significant architectural evolution from where we are today. Dat…

(I work at Discord.) It's not even the most interesting metric about our systems anyway. If we're really going to look at the tech, the inflation of those metrics to deliver the se…

(I work at Discord and manage our Infrastructure, Security, and Safety engineering organizations.) We currently don't intentionally block or disable third party clients or action t…

Core Wars was great! I spent a good amount of time in the late 90s writing little bots for a similar game, AT-Robots, where you write an assembly type language to program a little …

I didn't make the original decision but if I were starting something and I had no idea whether or not it'd be successful, I'd do whatever was the absolute fastest way to get to MVP…

Define 'supports.' It's still against the TOS -- my point is only that we don't specifically look for third party client users and we have no specific plans to do so.

Can confirm. We (Discord) moved off of MongoDB for various reasons and are quite happy about that decision but managing Cassandra/Scylla clusters is not exactly a walk in the park …

I run the infrastructure department at Discord which includes our anti-spam engineering team -- Just want to +1 what you're saying and confirm that we are never trying to ban third…

Yeah, that's fair. We did follow up and I'm told we're unblocked now.

There are a couple of discoverability mechanisms, but it really depends on what you're looking for. Usually people follow the network -- find one person that's interesting, see who…

You're definitely right -- this is an issue. I could very well believe that we tripped some FB spam measures. We have a very manual anti-spam process right now that relies on human…

Hi all! Co-owner of Dreamwidth here. Pretty cool to see my project hit the front page of HN, but definitely a bit of a /shrug moment on the subject itself. "Facebook gonna Facebook…

(Discord infra person here.) Actually we didn't update the reference to Cassandra in the article -- the read states workload is now on Scylla too, as of last week. ;) We'll be writ…

I work on infrastructure at Discord. Our voice and video infrastructure gets attacked quite frequently and we have pretty good tracking about which ASNs the traffic is coming from …

It looks like this web site is unmaintained and incorrect in at least the Discord case. I see a PR open since 2017, and a comment on it saying 'this site is unmaintained.'

Discord infra engineer here -- this blog post needs an update! Since then we've scaled this system much more. :) The Fortnite Official server has exceeded 100,000 concurrent users,…

Yes, yes we are.

I respectfully disagree with the other comment who said he'd rather take a helicopter. (I'm a private pilot of fixed-wing aircraft.) For General Aviation safety, read the Joseph T.…

Caveat lector: I'm one of the two founders of Dreamwidth. Yes! Dreamwidth is a fork of the old LiveJournal code that is still being developed by a small team of folks who would rat…

Another Delphi person!! Yay! I spent so much of my life writing Delphi code. As a teenager. Basically from 12-18 I wrote Delphi/Pascal. Hundreds of stupid little Windows apps (and …

I worked at CCP and was on the same team as t20 for a while. He definitely wasn't the reason BoB succeeded for as long as they did. In random point, I (while a dev) was a member of…

Only slightly less euphemistic than flying's CFIT - Controlled Flight Into Terrain. AKA "whoops, the ground".