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Wow, they finally took my advice and changed their layout back! :P

rsoto 16y ago
Yours and the world's as well. I don't care how fast they claim to be now-- whether if it's true or not. reddit is down at the moment and I've been reloading like crazy for about 2 hours. I think there's a lesson to learn there.
- codexon 16y ago
  Reddit has always had way more downtime than digg for as long as I can remember. People left digg for reddit because of power users and the last straw of serving as an RSS feed for big name websites. If they have the brains to go back on these 2 changes and maintain the same uptime, there's absolutely no reason why they would not be able to surpass reddit again. Reddit is not without its share of problems: - frequent downtime - censorship and squatting of subreddits - censorship of random subreddits like atheism - shadow banning of random articles
  - redthrowaway 16y ago
    What makes you think there's any real censorship? Mods are free to censor whatever they feel like. When people get sick of it, they form a new community. See the /r/marijuana to /r/trees migration that occurred a while back for the most famous example. Shadowbanning from the site is really only done by hueypriest. If a mod shadowbans you, post elsewhere. As far as downtime, they have three engineers. One programmer, and two sysadmins. Raldi just left for Google. Three engineers for 1.1 billion pageviews. Give them a break.
    - codexon 16y ago
      - What makes you think there's any real censorship? See the atheism debacle. They tweaked the "algorithm" until it stopped showing up in the top 10 (requirement for frontpage). Try submitting an anti-haskell article in proggit. It will never show up. - Shadowbanning from the site is really only done by hueypriest. If a mod shadowbans you, post elsewhere. Post elsewhere? The difference between the front page and a random unknown subreddit is 20k or 10 viewers. Articles can be "shadowbanned" because of their faulty anti-spam system. The main problem with shadowbanning is that people don't even know it is shadow banned until they start digging, so good stories get stuck in limbo. - As far as downtime, they have three engineers. One programmer, and two sysadmins. Raldi just left for Google. Three engineers for 1.1 billion pageviews. Give them a break. They had uptime problems far before 1.1 billion pageviews. Read the The Mythical Man-Month. 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month. 3 engineers is more than enough for this type of website. If it isn't, then they should've stopped adding features.
      - redthrowaway 16y ago
        >3 engineers is more than enough for this type of website. Sorry, but you lost all credibility right there.

rsoto 16y ago

Yours and the world's as well. I don't care how fast they claim to be now-- whether if it's true or not. reddit is down at the moment and I've been reloading like crazy for about 2 hours. I think there's a lesson to learn there.

codexon 16y ago
Reddit has always had way more downtime than digg for as long as I can remember. People left digg for reddit because of power users and the last straw of serving as an RSS feed for big name websites. If they have the brains to go back on these 2 changes and maintain the same uptime, there's absolutely no reason why they would not be able to surpass reddit again. Reddit is not without its share of problems: - frequent downtime - censorship and squatting of subreddits - censorship of random subreddits like atheism - shadow banning of random articles
- redthrowaway 16y ago
  What makes you think there's any real censorship? Mods are free to censor whatever they feel like. When people get sick of it, they form a new community. See the /r/marijuana to /r/trees migration that occurred a while back for the most famous example. Shadowbanning from the site is really only done by hueypriest. If a mod shadowbans you, post elsewhere. As far as downtime, they have three engineers. One programmer, and two sysadmins. Raldi just left for Google. Three engineers for 1.1 billion pageviews. Give them a break.
  - codexon 16y ago
    - What makes you think there's any real censorship? See the atheism debacle. They tweaked the "algorithm" until it stopped showing up in the top 10 (requirement for frontpage). Try submitting an anti-haskell article in proggit. It will never show up. - Shadowbanning from the site is really only done by hueypriest. If a mod shadowbans you, post elsewhere. Post elsewhere? The difference between the front page and a random unknown subreddit is 20k or 10 viewers. Articles can be "shadowbanned" because of their faulty anti-spam system. The main problem with shadowbanning is that people don't even know it is shadow banned until they start digging, so good stories get stuck in limbo. - As far as downtime, they have three engineers. One programmer, and two sysadmins. Raldi just left for Google. Three engineers for 1.1 billion pageviews. Give them a break. They had uptime problems far before 1.1 billion pageviews. Read the The Mythical Man-Month. 9 women can't make a baby in 1 month. 3 engineers is more than enough for this type of website. If it isn't, then they should've stopped adding features.
    - redthrowaway 16y ago
      >3 engineers is more than enough for this type of website. Sorry, but you lost all credibility right there.