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(Main Dev of site here: Sorry for that! I should really get around to setting up autoscaling. Site should now be properly available again.)


While I have your ear, any reason why the Be Happier post[0] isn't loading anymore? Loading it through the Wayback Machine it shows that the author deleted their account. Did you folks decide to hide those posts? I only ask cuz it's my favorite post on the whole site.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20180220101251/http://lesswrong....


Yeah, the old Reddit codebase was super inconsistent about how it marked deleted and "soft-deleted" posts, and so we erred on the site of deleting stuff to not accidentally deanonymize someone.

But now that you remind me of that, I think we now have the relevant technology and understanding of the old DB to make it do the correct thing. I will give it a shot in the next few days.


That's awesome news. Good luck!


I've been out of the loop a long time -- did the backend change along with the frontend? I remember LW links surviving HN hugs before...


Yep, backend changed together with the frontend, and we are still working out some of the kinks.


Actually you should probably set up a CDN. There is no need to serve pages that are the same for every visitor from your server.




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