[adieulot]

Yes that’s websockets it seems. Must be quite a overhead, they use it on all answers.

[KyleBrandt]

We currently have ~ 128k open sessions for sockets (They all go through HAProxy).

They socket server process runs on 9 web servers, and each service is using less than 1% CPU at the moment.

So very efficient from a sysadmin perspective (We did some tuning with conntrack so only the outside is tracked on the load balancers).

Devs could give a lot more detail.

[naiquevin]

Yes, it's websockets. You can check it in Chrome by keeping the console open and refreshing the page. Would be interesting to test in IE.

BTW, as much as I am amazed to see websockets in action, the real time updating of vote count feels creepy and distracting at the same time :-)

[ck2]

It makes me feel more connected though.

As long as it's not abused I think it's a clever use.

Have to research how to setup websocket server.

This looks like an impressive project http://socket.io/

[mattmanser]

Yeah, I guess we're going to see a lot more bad UX abuse of this in the near future. It's very distracting.

[Trufa]

But it's awfully cool when you see it going up or down :)