Ask HN/PG: Leaderboard acting strange?

5 points·johns··11 comments

This morning I was about 100 short of the leaderboard and made two submissions that got me about 60 points. A minute ago I was 95th and the 100th spot was at 3900 but now I'm 98th with the last spot at 4072. Any idea what's up with the fluctuating numbers?

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I just restarted the server. Users are lazily loaded, so the leaderboard will look odd for a brief period after a restart.

The 'submitted' link on the profile basically doesn't work http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ivankirigin

I suppose it is related to the lazy loading?

Yes, items are lazily loaded too. Responses to http requests get killed after 30 sec, so if the server has to load too much stuff to satisfy a request, it will die first.

It's always been this way. After the server has been running for a bit it stops being a problem.

Perhaps you should hide features that are likely going to be unavailable if the server recently restarted.

No need to send users down a rabbit hole, and certainly no need to waste the cycles on your machine.

Or limit it to far fewer results. I click the submissions link pretty frequently from my own profile as an easy way to check up on conversations on threads I've started. Now I feel kind of bad for doing it that way.

Where's nickb?

A couple weeks ago I added a recency threshold for the leaderboard. It's currently 100 days.

I'd be interested to see what fraction of the leaderboard users' karma comes from comments vs. stories.

And you care bacause?

Pure curiosity of how it works. That's all. I don't really care either way where I rank.

I believe you...

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