And US productivity increased 15% during the outage. Maybe social media should be turned off on Tuesdays and Thursdays, as suggested in Ready Player One.
I'd like to see how that would go.
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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.
Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.
Forget the settings, just use http://old.reddit.com always :)
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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.
Their new redesign is so completely awful they have to have an option to “just show the old reddit” in your settings. If they ever take that away I think I’ll just stop using it, it’s that bad.
I stopped criticizing redesigns because i usually get over it, but the Reddit one makes the site at least 8x slower for me.
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Exactly. Will this new platform provide a safe space for the brilliant minds at /r/fatpeoplehate? /s The problem with all anti-censorship platforms is that they become hate platforms by default, because only people who get deplatformed have an incentive to move there, and it’s mostly hateful loudmouths who get deplatformed.
Personally, I think the solution is just to give users options to censor others from their perspective instead of just trying to create some utopia that is free from hatred of any kind - which is impossible. Personally, I prefer having these disgusting people out in the open. When they do something horrendous, the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them. These people are usually pr…
Hearts and minds are not fixed. People can be recruited and radicalised. For every one person who'd do this stuff on their own there's a hundred who do it because they think it's popular.
> the paper trail can be long and damning - making it much easier to convict them
This usually comes out after they've carried out the mass shooting.
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
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Not really a miracle. Reddit software is magnitudes simpler than Facebook. Not to mention the quality is often sub-par. For example, many hate their mobile app with a passion and search field could as well just not exist when I tried.
I a lot of people use third party mobile apps because the official one is subpar. They should just acqui-hire Apollo for iOS at least.
Given what happened after they acqui-hired Alien Blue, I'd say no they shouldn't.
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That was in December 2005, less than 6 months after the site launched. Reddit was tiny and didn't even have subreddits or comments yet. This is what it looked like: https://web.archive.org/web/20051205025706/http://reddit.com... The problems they're dealing with 14 years later as one of the top sites on the internet aren't even slightly comparable.
Sure, may be its time to move to something like Clojure or Golang now? Python is a good scripting language, But if you are developing backend applications for this scale you probably need some serious JVM language. Or even Golang works fine.
Instagram's backend is written in python. Python is very slow, but still fast enough.
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Not recently, but Twitter's "fail whale" became famous due to problems Twitter had under heavy load.
That was also a decade ago.
I regularly get the fail whale on mobile, but I suspect it's an intentional dark pattern to push you into the mobile app rather than an engineering issue.
Re: Reddit was down for over two hours
#248Reddit is the only major social media/aggregator I can think of that actually has to go offline for scheduled maintenance still. I can’t imagine the kind of shitshow it must be internally. Imagine if Facebook or Twitter had to go down regularly for “maintenance”. Heads would roll.
Steam is worse - weekly "maintenance" on Tuesday evening, where everyone is disconnected for ~10-20 minutes. It's common knowledge not to play at that time if the game uses Steam networking, otherwise you'll be kicked mid-session with a "Lost connection to Steam" error message and lose all your progress. And yes, this is happening in 2019.
I remember that from 15 years ago, would have thought they had enough time to fix it since then.
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Yes, oh no. Dark patterns are closer to fraud than to a legitimate business model I'd recommend to my friends and family. Nigerian princes selling you gold is a business model too.
The company you work for, how do they make money? Do they market their products?
Yes of course. What's your point? All marketing lies, and there is no spectrum, and therefore no moral ambiguity in doing shady things?
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> the people who talk about USENET and IRC are people who don't want to be "updated" to what modern users demand. IRC is objectively terrible. If you ask a question, the only way to get the answer is if you stay logged in until someone answers you. That's like buying a phone that doesn't ring unless you're already holding it up to your ear, or an email client that deletes all your email unless you happen to be lookin…
Young people now think it’s ok to send out a message and respond whenever they feel like it. Communication is no longer a conversation in the tradition sense, it’s a series of monologues or statements where the sender usually only cares about whether you are impressed by the statement. IRC was all about conversation. You went there to have a conversation, like a party line voice bridge. You even waited around for som…
> Young people now think it’s ok to send out a message and respond whenever they feel like it.
Boomers demand attention constantly.