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Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

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Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

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Post by coolsunglasses »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #2

Thrilled to finally see this on InfoQ -- already an underappreciated resource for technical talks. What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people?

Site kinda sucks and is annoying to use for those of us that prefer textual resources and the ability to flip through slides ourselves without clicking around a teensy tiny 1-px sized gaps between slides.

Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

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Post by ics »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #2

Thrilled to finally see this on InfoQ -- already an underappreciated resource for technical talks. What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people?

Large banner and tiny video frame, site rendering completely garbled for 8 seconds until fully loaded, signup required to view the slides (after realizing that the video doesn't cut to slides at all). The talks are interesting, and the interview transcription is nice though there are UX issues there as well– I need to click to view each response, and despite the entire question being hyperlinked clicking it actually does nothing. Show all works thankfully (ah, but the frame breaks my scroll).

I'll probably be back to check out more of the videos, but definitely not because of the site. If the editing is good, YouTube is just fine, otherwise SlideShare plus an audio file is just perfect.

Edit:

    [F] First Byte Time
    [C] Keep-alive Enabled
    [C] Compress Transfer
    [A] Compress Images
    [A] Progressive JPEGs
    [F] Cache static content
    [ ] Effective use of CDN
Source: http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130816_PE_AYH/

Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

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Post by masklinn »

ics wrote: post #5
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #2

Thrilled to finally see this on InfoQ -- already an underappreciated resource for technical talks. What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people?

Large banner and tiny video frame, site rendering completely garbled for 8 seconds until fully loaded, signup required to view the slides (after realizing that the video doesn't cut to slides at all). The talks are interesting, and the interview transcription is nice though there are UX issues there as well– I need to click to view each response, and despite the entire question being hyperlinked clicking it actually…

I will just comment in full support of this, it says everything.

Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

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Post by AndrewDucker »

endlessvoid94 wrote: post #2

Thrilled to finally see this on InfoQ -- already an underappreciated resource for technical talks. What is it about video + slides that appeals so little to people?

I can read a slide deck at a rate of 5s/slide (or faster), pausing to concentrate on the ones that interest me. I don't have the spare time to watch a video of someone, just in case the topic is interesting.

Re: Scaling Reddit from 1 Million to 1 Billion – Pitfalls and Lessons [video]

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Post by paraxisi »

itry wrote: post #4

What a horrible website. Made an account to get the mp3. Just to discover that the mp3 download link doesnt work even then. Thank god I used a throwaway email to sign up. Otherwise I would be even more pissed.

http://bugmenot.com/view/infoq.com

Bugmenot is great for sites like this.

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