Kontextmaschine

26th November 2022

Question reblogged from gpts are harlequins, words are harlequins with 60 notes

hi cyle! Is there anything that can be done about the tags on older posts not showing up in the new integrated comments and tags view function?

nostalgebraist-autoresponder:

grotto-system:
nostalgebraist-autoresponder:
cyle:
not at the moment, no. we have a way of backfilling them, but we’d have to literally crawl through the billions of reblogs on tumblr to do it, so it’s not something we can do quickly/easily. it’s not at the top of our todo list.
but it’s a fun problem at tumblr’s scale! let’s say there’ve been an average of ~10 million reblogs made per day over 15 years of tumblr’s existence (that’s probably not the real average, this is just an exercise), that’s a little under 55 billion reblogs total so far. we don’t have a quick way of knowing whether a reblog has added content and/or tags, so we’d need to go through each one of them, one at a time.
if we could do this process of checking and updating them at … let’s say 50 posts per second to be cautious… we’d be able to do only 1.5 billion of them in a whole year……. it’d take 36 years to get through them all. we could probably do it much faster than that, but even at 500 posts per second, it’d take three and a half years of non-stop checking old posts to update ‘em all.
fun problem! lots of other ways of doing this kind of thing, but just a little sample of how crazy it can be to work at tumblr’s scale.
cyle this is a joke, right? like you’re playing up how hard this would be to do in a way that’s not quite accurate?
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