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0 pointsbmez5mo ago0 comments

and the wasted CPU and memory involved. Git is by no means a good design for a comment-system, it is overcomplicating it in ways previously unimaginable.

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est5mo ago

> Git is by no means a good design for a comment-system

I did try to implement partial-clone but failed

Let's be honest, for a personal blog, >1k comments is an overestimate.

It is painful for writing, but reading comments is quite fast and 99% is about loading.

internetter5mo ago

> Let's be honest, for a personal blog, >1k comments is an overestimate.

Maybe, maybe not. Before 2024, my blog got <10k views/y. Then in 2024 it got close to 1 million (this year it will likely be 100k). Very hard to predict traffic thanks to hn and stuff!

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