[cowsup]

Strange thing is that photo albums re relatively new. Imgur was the go-to host for Reddit, and then they made their own uploader a looong time later. The "albums" functionality only came out in July of 2020, according to a Google search.

Seems this was less likely a "someone else will deal with it" problem, and more of a development / QA testing problem.

[Gigachad]

For some reason most stuff still defaults to i32 and a lot of people use them for new code. At this point I'd not be against linters warning against using 32 bit ints unless you have a good reason.

[bushbaba]

My alma maters vending machines used an unsigned integer for understanding school debt card balance. However the school debt card used a signed integer to allow for small negative balances.

Well students uncovered the flaw and had their cards be at negative 1 dollar, which the vending machine read as a very large balance.

[thegeomaster]

They're still a good choice for most perf critical code due to the reduced memory use.

[kuroguro]

What I don't get is why you'd want a signed int for an id.

[curioussavage]

I’m pretty sure the table in question stores image metadata for all user uploaded images. As well as images scraped from posted links which goes back way before images in posts

[jimmytucson]

A new feature but it wasn’t built on a new codebase. Reddit is a monolith and a lot of things users think of as different “entities” live in the same set of tables.