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I guess Instagram, Threads, Reddit, Uber, and Spotify aren’t serious long term applications.

I'm not sure i'd cite Reddit as a positive example of such a thing.

You wouldn’t cite Reddit as a positive example of successfully using Python to run a large scale, high traffic application?

That's what i'm saying. The frequency with which the site just loses the plot and fails to load, or fails to carry out some action or other, is orders of magnitude higher than anything else i use.

I rarely get server errors on Reddit despite its massive scale… It’s the client which is a tire-fire. People blame React but that doesn’t have anything to do with it either. It’s just utter shit.

Exactly! The third-party apps used to load everything seamlessly.

Whatever it's coded in, the back-end of reddit is pretty robust and well-done (maybe excluding the video hosting part and whatever new laggy crap they put in)

It's the new front-end of reddit that's a huge dumpster-fire.

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