I've noticed a couple of stories with a huge number of comments and the site is running fine. In the past I've had to logout when the comment count gets too high. What has changed?
Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
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Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#2On the contrary, I’ve had more problems with the site in the last week than ever before.
Maybe it was the threads you were talking about. Maybe it was said upgrade process.
It was probably coincidence. Personally I doubt anything has changed.
What are you considering a lot of comments? The largest I’ve seen since I’ve been here was the Roe v. Wade overturn post, and it was around 1000. The site’s acting no different for me now than it did then.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#3Logout because of too many comments? What browser and OS are you using?
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#4On the contrary, I’ve had more problems with the site in the last week than ever before. Maybe it was the threads you were talking about. Maybe it was said upgrade process. It was probably coincidence. Personally I doubt anything has changed. What are you considering a lot of comments? The largest I’ve seen since I’ve been here was the Roe v. Wade overturn post, and it was around 1000. The site’s acting no different…
I've noticed the same. Never seen it get overloaded before, but it's happened several times over the past week.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#5On the contrary, I’ve had more problems with the site in the last week than ever before. Maybe it was the threads you were talking about. Maybe it was said upgrade process. It was probably coincidence. Personally I doubt anything has changed. What are you considering a lot of comments? The largest I’ve seen since I’ve been here was the Roe v. Wade overturn post, and it was around 1000. The site’s acting no different…
I've noticed the same. Never seen it get overloaded before, but it's happened several times over the past week.
I thought that's a soft-lockout that's supposed to tell you to stop trying to comment on a topic. If you're persistent and really want to, you can after a minute or two, but if it's not that important, you go "meh, I guess not" and go on your merry way.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#6Logout because of too many comments? What browser and OS are you using?
In the past it's sometimes been requested by dang on particularly popular threads so they can serve the page from cache. Here's one example [0], it's from 2016 but is just an illustration. I'm not sure I've seen it suggested for some time though.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#7Logout because of too many comments? What browser and OS are you using?
HN backend sometimes is laggy preparing user-specific view of threads.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
HN backend sometimes is laggy preparing user-specific view of threads.
User-specific? Why isn't the page excluding the header part cached separately, or am I missing something?
Presumably basic stuff like showing whether or not you've upvoted a comment and showing your own comments differently to other people's.
Re: Ask HN: Has HN had an upgrade?
#10> In the past I've had to logout when the comment count gets too high.
Never experienced this in years.
Everything seems same as always. Still unreadable flagged/downvoted comments, still too small font, stil Downvote button, still Flag button without requiring public reason.