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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Really? What do you expect is the edit rate on sites like Lemmy and reddit? One in ten comments? I think more like one in 30 or something. That would increase the storage costs by 3% and a small amount of processing power.

Hosting costs are dwarfed by media storage anyway.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

If you’re building a system to allow change-log levels of editing, you have to allow for a significant portion of your user base using it, whether or not they do.

That will add fail points and hosting that’s wholly unnecessary to code and maintain, regardless of what percentage you think will use those features.

Have you ever been in charge of distributed large-scale systems like that with millions of users? I have. That would be bonkers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Hold up, I think we have a discrepancy regarding what we are talking about.

I'm not thinking of anything user facing. The ux would be exactly identical to what is publicly observable on reddit already. I'm talking about the possibility to dump any change to comments or posts into a cold data store for later analysis. We don't have to question or think how many users would make use of it, we can count the fraction of comments with an "edited" label on reddit.