Details here: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3165

This will VASTLY decrease the server load of I/O for PostgreSQL, as this mistaken code is doing writes of ~1700 rows (each known Lemmy instance in the database) on every single comment & post creation. This creates record-locking issues given it is writes, which are harsh on the system. Once this is fixed, some site operators will be able to downgrade their hardware! ;)

  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
    12·
    1 year ago

    Or there’s just room for improvement and optimization, as each developer has its strengths and weaknesses, as any other professional, and a system like lemmy is very complex and really requires to cover a lot from backend to front end.

    And there used to be only 2 developers.

    I once check a open source implementation of a niche product from Microsoft, and it was a nightmare of unoptimized code. And Microsoft spent a lot of development resources there.

    Creating lemmy as 2 people job is quite impressive. Luckily now there are resources for optimization