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by fifilura 87 days ago
> made someone look bad

That, or that it DoS-ed the database.
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iinnPP 87 days ago
It was offline.
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MBCook 86 days ago
And making each click trigger a 20 second DB query doesn’t?

How much you want to bet that’s why it was 20 seconds?

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fifilura 86 days ago
If you prefetch all those options in the background, I bet the DB would be unhappy.
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