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Why does the frontpage of kbin.social work so much better than any other server? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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When I visit kbin.social, I see new posts regularly. On other servers posts stay on the frontpage for multiple days. This is also true if I switch their sorting to "hot". So that is probably not the difference.

What is kbin.social doing differently?

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Trite answer: When it's done

More in-depth answer: Currently there's no set date. It depends on how quickly they can tear out all the WebSockets code and replace it with simple HTTP (that's the BIG change, will fix a lot of different things), and then test those changes. The hot_rank fix has already been merged, that's done, but they want a stable, cohesive release with all the good stuff.

Current estimations I've seen range from 1-2 weeks, but it all depends on how fast they can get it coded and tested.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

2 weeks is juuuust in time for the 3rd party apps cancellation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I believe it's supposed to drop next week as long as there are no last minute problems.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The websockets work has been merged. I'm using it on my instance now, but there's no release yet. It's been really stable for me so far, so I'm hoping there aren't major issues and they can push it out soon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why are they getting rid of WebSockets? It's really useful for instant data and is often faster than simple HTTP requests.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

You can see the discussion about this here, but the short version is that it's not scalable, hits apps & browsers like a truck, memory leaks, and live updates cause feed reshuffling which is really annoying