What is our famous phrase for putting strain on websites? So we have it ready for when we reach critical mass one day.

  • @[email protected]
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    343 days ago

    Love Lemmy and want to see it grow, and it might be able to slow down a poorly-made site, but I doubt we have the raw clicks to cause an issue on properly-maintained websites.

    • osaerisxero
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      523 days ago

      Now that’s not true at all, we’ve killed Lemmy several times at this point

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      142 days ago

      Not even Reddit can hug properly hosted websites anymore. Our server architecture is quite a bit more robust and flexible now than it was even just 5 or 6 years ago.

    • @[email protected]
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      72 days ago

      have the raw clicks to cause an issue on properly-maintained websites.

      That’s been true of Reddit forever now as well, I only ever remember the Hug of Death actually affecting only small time websites that probably had maybe like 3 people running it.

      Links to anything else was usually just fine, barring a few exceptions because even the big boys make fuck ups too

      But nowadays the bar to “properly maintained” is lower with more mature, robust and easier to use tooling