Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Early Engineer at Pinterest, Its First CTO

Post by praneshp » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 9:21 PM UTC

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Reddit still borks during peak hour, after all this years. But not as often as it used to. There was a huge discussion about reddit not implementing better moderation/spamming/vote-rigging and site wide feature tools that has been promised for years. Basically reddit has been bit stagnant feature wise for some time now. Lot were promise with lotsa new hires but nothing much to show for it. With spez being back, hopef…

I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.

Post by tallerholler » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 9:27 PM UTC

dublinben wrote: post #10

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What are the technology challenges is Reddit facing? Clearly not scaling as it's been pretty reliable. New features? What more feature does one need from Reddit? It's pretty good for what it's doing.

The moderation tools are absolutely archaic. Moderating any subreddit of sufficient size requires a small army of bots and third party tools. Basic forum moderation tools like IP banning persistent troublemakers and spammers are still not available.

Post by bluecalm » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 9:36 PM UTC

boomzilla wrote: post #15

pavs wrote: post #13

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Reddit still borks during peak hour, after all this years. But not as often as it used to. There was a huge discussion about reddit not implementing better moderation/spamming/vote-rigging and site wide feature tools that has been promised for years. Basically reddit has been bit stagnant feature wise for some time now. Lot were promise with lotsa new hires but nothing much to show for it. With spez being back, hopef…

I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.

Post by obstacle1 » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 9:45 PM UTC

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piotrjurkiewicz wrote: post #16

It is clear that Reddit is facing some problems with scalability. I often get server errors during peak hours. But I think that politically-based censorship, which is being enforced by many moderators (with the help of Reddit admins), will kill this service sooner than scalability problems. Users will simply left Reddit when they will become censored. Many users I knew already did that. Moreover, moderators of many s…

What are you referring to you when you talk about politically-based censorship? I was increasingly turned off by the growing racism, misogyny, and hate that I saw daily on Reddit, and am quite happy to see many of the most disgusting subreddits finally done away with. I suspect that for every free-speech absolutist worried about Reddit refusing to sanction such vitriol there are many more that will be happy to find a…

Post by dublinben » Tue, Aug 18, 2015, 9:56 PM UTC

bluecalm wrote: post #25

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I mostly read Reddit while not logged in, so I've never seen any latency. I guess it's mostly because of authentication/personalized content stuff, which should be easy to fix, by doing less of them or lazy loading.

Maybe they serve more cached content to not logged users while being more careful about serving up-to-date one to the logged ones? It's just a wild guess I have no idea how it works.