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Caligvla@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The problems at Twitter are profound.

  DeSantis’s campaign has been plauged by technical issues, as Twitter Spaces cannot support the same kind of streaming traffic that Twitch / Youtube / etc. etc. can support. This means that DeSantis’s big online launch party was ruined due to reliance upon Twitter.

  This is closer to what I predict and expect to happen. Twitter’s bones are solid, Twitter was (emphasis on WAS) one of the best run technology stacks ever back in 2020 or 2019. It will take a lot of effort before that falls apart. Any “legacy” code is likely good.

  But you know what’s likely to break? New features, new loadouts, and random changes that the new ignorant staff cannot manage. Its one thing to maintain a good website, its a totally different thing to make new features. (Especially when the feature is to get rid of blue checkmarks, I mean to turn old blue-checkmarks into grey checkmarks, I mean allow a $8/month payment for blue checkmarks, I mean to delete old blue-checkmarks from people who haven’t moved onto the payment scheme, I mean…)

  Technology is about change. Eventually, Twitter cannot change and get updated. Its already happened this year, Twitter Spaces is proof of that.

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I dunno’, they’re already having problems keeping tweets sync’d across servers. Several times have I seen a 404 for a tweet that someone else is staring at.

    That’s a basic server scaling issue. Showing up in Twitter production. I’m not so sure they’ve even kept the old bones intact.

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    • dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      cnbc.com/…/elon-musk-moved-twitter-servers-himsel…

      Well, new stuff includes the new Datacenter that Elon Musk personally moved all those servers into. Even if it was legacy old servers that were working, they’re effectively new given the amount of changes that could occur at a new datacenter.

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  • KevonLooney@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The new staff are not necessary “ignorant”. There’s a limited amount of work you can do in one day/week/month.

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    • dragontamer@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m sure they’re smart, but its well recognized that they’re ignorant.

      Ex: there were large scale complaints about being the last person remaining from a team of ~20 and being forced to take care of the servers anyway. They were certainly fine when they were part of a team of 20, but when 19/20 people leave, whoever is left over is best described as “ignorant”.

      I’m sure they’re doing the best that they can, but there’s no way one person can know everything that the 19-other-people knew.

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