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Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance
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this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Looks like the app wasn't developed with a scalable architecture from the start, then they strapped some caching out of desperation when users started flocking, and didn't consider the invalidation parameters for private pages correctly.
It's a little bit baffling. It's not like they couldn't have predicted this server load. I know it's tricky to foresee bottlenecks in some situations but them adding caching (a very basic thing for scalability) at the last minute belies a lack of either experience, forethought, or knowledge, I am not sure which.