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.
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madcaesar@lemmy.world 2 months agoI 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?
ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 2 months ago
booly@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Each change is less costly to store than each comment, and the system processes millions of comments per day.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Storage is cheap. Losing valuable data is expensive
tal@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months 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.