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Meta: Heavily Commented Page Load Times

posted by janrinok on Tuesday June 14 2016, @01:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the like-maple-syrup dept.

The Mighty Buzzard writes:

So, the Islamic Terrorist Opens Fire on Florida Nightclub; 50 Killed, 53 Wounded story is up over 400 comments and loading slower than hell. We finally managed to find ourselves a limit to comments under the current code. There's a fix going to be coming in the upcoming site update but for now there are two workarounds; take your pick.

  1. Change your comment view mode to Nested or Flat.
  2. Change Comment Limit under Preferences to five to ten.

The latter solution gives you 5-10 root level comments and all their children not 5-10 comments total. It also allows you to keep using the javascript expand/collapse buttons if you were.

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  • (Score: 2) by darkfeline on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:20PM

    by darkfeline (1030) on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:20PM (#360144) Homepage

    The post is light on details; as SN has a higher proportion of programmers and generally intelligent people, we can afford to be more informative.

    From what I can tell:

    - Nested shows all comments fully in a tree
    - Threaded shows in a tree only root comment and comments that hit the breakthrough score fully, non-root comments below breakthrough are collapsed links
    - Improved Threaded is Threaded with Javascript for expanding and collapsing

    I'm guessing the issue here is that Improved Threaded needs to be made more smart w.r.t. many comments.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:38PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:38PM (#360155) Homepage Journal

    Nah, it's just that running the templates for each comment adds up after a hundred or so and gets downright sad by four hundred. Nested isn't really any faster than Threaded and Improved Threaded is the same speed as Threaded as far as our servers are concerned.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 14 2016, @08:43PM (#360158)

    SN has a higher proportion of programmers and generally intelligent people

    Too bad they never post.

    • (Score: 2) by ThePhilips on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:45AM

      by ThePhilips (5677) on Wednesday June 15 2016, @08:45AM (#360440)

      They are too busy ranting the fine legal points about the Hillary's e-mail snafu.

      P.S. Being intelligent is not the same as having sane priorities.