You can't and it shouldn't matter and I don't care if everyone sees my upvotes on Reddit right away / at the same time as others or if I see theirs or when exactly my comments show up.
But global/twitter/reddit etc. scale does matter in that I don't really remember a PHPBB or slashdot or HN swallowing my comments, ever. Even if you get an error you can always just go back in the browser and your input box is there with your comment.
But reddit has been effing atrocious over the last few months. You get "Internal Server Error" when trying to do any voting or commenting a lot and it won't go away until you refresh the page like 17 times (until presumably you round robin get to some BE server that actually works. It's also been swallowing comments, where about every third or fourth comment it accepts the comment instead of throwing an Internal Server Error at you (which would be preferable) and instead it "accepts" it but it will never show up. Ever. Only chance is to copy every comment before submitting, in case you have to re-submit it from scratch.
That and the Instagram architecture video are such eye-opening examples that I always send to juniors when they have doubts about their own abilities. In most cases, we're astronomically no where near Reddit/Twitter/Instagram scale, and yet we avoid a lot of the common pitfalls we see presented in those videos. Side note, I'm shocked at the quality, but hey "Time To Market!"
I had the same eye opening experience when I first "met" Jira. I was pretty fresh out of uni myself, yet I knew you should never use a business key that people might want to change and always use surrogate keys for your database.
And here is Jira "happily" using Issue Key as both the business key that signifies which project an issue belongs to, which can very obviously change as soon as you move a ticket to another project and as the primary key in their database and thus for everything related to an issue like say issue links.
I was laughing so hard that you couldn't tell I was also crying and cursing at the same time coz I had to deal with that fact.
They've since introduced ids for things but ... duuuudes! WTF! lol
> don't really remember a PHPBB or slashdot or HN swallowing my comments, ever.
Really? I remember it happening a lot.
> Even if you get an error you can always just go back in the browser and your input box is there with your comment.
That's a relatively new feature and doesn't always work. (Old, I can't speak to new) Reddit's "push a button and it submits without moving off the page" is much nicer.
New reddit. Same submit without moving off the page. It's great if there is an actual error returned from their BE. You can try again etc.
The problematic case is that very often now it accepts your comment without any errors and... Then nothing. Your comment will never ever show up. The system swallowed it. Whole. Without chewing.
> The problematic case is that very often now it accepts your comment without any errors and... Then nothing. Your comment will never ever show up. The system swallowed it. Whole. Without chewing.
Huh. I've never seen that. Does it not show on your user page even? I've known it to take a few seconds for comments to show up, and mods on certain subs love to silently delete comments (sometimes automatically), but I've never seen them just disappear.
Not the thread, not the user page. Nowhere. Just gone.
I do also have the case where it disappears but a refresh / going to the user page will show it, i.e. something async on their end was just a few milliseconds too slow or something.
And posting the exact same comment again (I c+p them now) works. So it wouldn't be any automatic removals and it's too fast for manual removals.
I think I agree across the board. HN and Stack Overflow are both amusing examples of much simpler architectures that kind of get to the point, though? Such that I'm not clear if we are on the same page, there.
But global/twitter/reddit etc. scale does matter in that I don't really remember a PHPBB or slashdot or HN swallowing my comments, ever. Even if you get an error you can always just go back in the browser and your input box is there with your comment.
But reddit has been effing atrocious over the last few months. You get "Internal Server Error" when trying to do any voting or commenting a lot and it won't go away until you refresh the page like 17 times (until presumably you round robin get to some BE server that actually works. It's also been swallowing comments, where about every third or fourth comment it accepts the comment instead of throwing an Internal Server Error at you (which would be preferable) and instead it "accepts" it but it will never show up. Ever. Only chance is to copy every comment before submitting, in case you have to re-submit it from scratch.