[cush]

Scale. Basic stops being basic at their insane scale.

[syrrim]

Basic was previously provided by an external service called pushshift, which was free to use and allowed searching individual comments.

[cush]

Right exactly. It easily works as an external toy project, now throw a hundred million people at it.

[bobbob1921]

I understand your point, but scale also applies to reddits resources and number of developers / options, so I disagree with this reasoning/excuse.

[jdauriemma]

You might be surprised at how small the Reddit team is

[whymauri]

They keep raising money. Might as well hire more and pay better. I'm blown away that after nearly 2 decades, search is effectively unfunded at this company.

[criddell]

> Might as well hire more and pay better

Would you want to work there? I suspect a lot of great candidates want nothing to do with that company.

[whymauri]

If they paid competitively, yes.

[xeromal]

Scale isn't a linear kind of problem though. The complexity, if not carefully managed, in my experience grows faster than linearly.

I always see Salesforce as a huge company with tons of resources whose products struggle frequently.

[cush]

This is what Reddit did. Just because you can throw developers and resources at a problem, does not make that problem basic.