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31 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b 4 Mar 2022
Having a rough start to the day. My neighbor is an airbnb host of a house that sleeps 15. It's basically a party venue rental business in a residential neighborhood. They are kind of simpleminded so don't seem to grasp the game theory of the situation - their guests have no reason to have compassion for the neighbors and the host themselves have weak incentive to make them compassionate.
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22 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 4 Mar 2022
Holy crap I just realized why notifications are so slow: I'm querying for all the comments of every item in notifications unnecessarily even though they aren't displayed. So dumb.
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22 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 4 Mar 2022
I was basically requesting 21 full comment threads every time a user visited their notifications.
edit: Okay, it doesn't appear to be a huge difference in performance but still nice to reduce some server load with a 10 line code fix.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Majjin 4 Mar 2022
Its always nice to find those little inefficiencies and smooth them out
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