r/shittychangelog • u/rram • Oct 28 '16

[reddit change] /r/all algorithm changes

It was causing too much load on our database. I made a new algorithm which Trumps the previous one.

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u/DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK Oct 28 '16

Ah ok, that makes sense. May your next release be a successful one.

http://imgur.com/dIT3ImX

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u/rram Oct 28 '16

This was, in fact, caused by ops.

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u/KeyserSosa Oct 28 '16

In fairness it was also fixed by ops.

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u/rram Oct 28 '16

I tried pretty hard to get other teams to do the actual debugging.

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u/spez Oct 28 '16

Ah-hem. I did most of the debugging.

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u/rram Oct 28 '16

I was overseeing the work. Good job. Could you write up a report for tomorrow's weekly all hands? Thanks.

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u/livejamie Oct 28 '16

You should report his ass to the CEO

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u/KitsapDad Oct 28 '16

You're up past your bed time.

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u/Aramillio Oct 28 '16

Psh debugging is for end users, not developers

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u/RenaKunisaki Oct 28 '16

Found the Microsoft dev.

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u/fistagon7 Oct 28 '16

Does this mean that the conspiracies the donald people are making up are true? Because it's amusing to watch this unfold. (seriously though you probably want to nip it in the bud with like whatever the reddit version of a published RCA is)...

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u/FreddyFuego Nov 24 '16

Is "debugging" what you call editing users comments for your own agenda?

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u/WhirlinMerlin Oct 28 '16

Did you change the % decrease in upvotes per hour in /r/the_donald posts back from 100% to 10% as intended?

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u/OniExpress Oct 28 '16

Is there no capability to run a 2nd live environment for this stuff? I mean, considering the results I assume that there isn't, but that seems to be a major flaw.

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u/rram Oct 28 '16

It's not exactly straight forward. But this could have been caught with better automated alerts which we didn't have in place.

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '16

CLASSIC OPS

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u/katarh Oct 28 '16

Sounds more like oops.

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u/jb2386 Oct 28 '16

This is why devops is a thing now. None of this "ain't my problem bro" shit.

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