Comment on Youtube's web UX team is a joke.
hex@programming.dev 4 months agoI mean of course that would be nice, but that’s just not realistic. You can’t store that info in a link without it being monstrous.
Why do you say they couldn’t cache the results and instead of re-fetching everything just use the cache results?
grue@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Sure you can, if your backend is designed reasonably.
How? You put a timestamp (or equivalent) in the URL and filter the search to only operate on the records that existed at that time. Assuming your search algorithm is deterministic, it should find the same results.
hex@programming.dev 4 months ago
I agree with your point, but our algorithms are not deterministic and I doubt they ever will be again. Perhaps they could use a set of tags to create a deterministic result for a certain “genre” of results.