I learned this like 10 years ago at least
Comment on Reddit Undeleted all my posts and comments
GBU_28@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I’ve been saying this from the start:
Any basic level competency backend team has change history on comments. Crack whatever jokes you like about Reddit but they at least have “basic level competency”
It’s trivial for them to build some filters to detect mass changes and just fuckin roll them back
demizerone@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yep. I just deleted my top comments and deleted the account. I wasn’t a high fluting karma whore, but it was 15 years worth. I still open reddit accidentally often, and that site is for sure going for the generic social media route. Such a shame.
madcaesar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I always assumed keeping a change history for comments would be cost prohibitive. I mean there are millions of comments and God knows how many changes.
But apparently it’s not a problem to keep versions of them. It doesn’t blow up the database?
tal@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
If you’re storing change deltas rather than whole copies of comments, the changes should be far smaller than the comments.
Dnb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Even storing full comments isn’t much more storage. Just consider it as another random comment from someone else. Doubt most people edit their comments so 95% of comments only have 1 copy. Hell they used (maybe still do) ignore edits in the first 5 min or something likely so people could fix typos/formatting before they start storing history separately.
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 3 weeks ago
So they keep the change logs. Just don’t provide them for the users’ benefit.
Sounds like what everyone else in all the spaces, does.
booly@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Each change is less costly to store than each comment, and the system processes millions of comments per day.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Storage is cheap. Losing valuable data is expensive