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RickS on July 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Reddit raises $200M at a $1.8B valuation

I recall twitter's early rewrite going pretty well. The "fail whale" was a real big deal before that. They went from notoriously poor uptime to being on par with facebook.

mrkrabo on Aug 1, 2017 [–]

But that was a rewrite of the backend which was very needed. The design didn't change.

Although I agree, Reddit desperately needs a rewrite of its backend.

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