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  • miraclechalk
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    1 year ago

    I read somewhere on one of these federated sites (I’d have to dig through my history to find it) that it’s essentially the spaghetti code that is Reddit. This person, who claimed to have worked at Reddit years ago, said that the aggregation engine for things like r/all is very inefficient and when thousands of subreddits went dark it wouldn’t be able to parse (or something like that).

    • TurnMeIntoAGameCube@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’ve heard something similar. What I heard specifically was that the front page algorithm had to keep digging deeper and deeper to populate desired content; that this somehow tanked the site.

      (I’m not a dev or programmer, apologies if my Info isn’t exact)