https://joule.dreamwidth.org/ Joule - Dreamwidth Studios Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:03:25 GMT LiveJournal / Dreamwidth Studios joule community https://v2.dreamwidth.org/92260/6165 https://joule.dreamwidth.org/ 100 100 https://joule.dreamwidth.org/1745.html Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:03:25 GMT https://joule.dreamwidth.org/1745.html Posted by: <span lj:user='marnanel' style='white-space: nowrap;' class='ljuser'><a href='https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='https://marnanel.dreamwidth.org/'><b>marnanel</b></a></span><br /><br />If you have more than 100 follows or unfollows since the previous check, Joule displays &quot;Many&quot; instead of the names, and links to this post.&nbsp; (This used to be &quot;Hiccup&quot;.)&nbsp; The three reasons for this are:<ol><li>We have to do a separate lookup in Twitter for every userid we haven't seen before, to get the icon and username.&nbsp; For 5000 changes in a day, that slows page load times a lot.&nbsp; This is still a problem.</li><li>There is an old pre-Twitter assumption that 100 follows or unfollows means either that Joule broke, or that LJ broke when it sent us the names.&nbsp; Clearly this is outdated.</li><li>There isn't enough space in the chart for more than a few hundred names a day without making the page insanely long.</li></ol><a href="http://carmenmachado.com">Carmen</a> has suggested replacing &quot;Hiccup&quot; with a link to a sub-page which displays all the names for that day, possibly allowing paging through them to get around the first problem I&nbsp;mentioned. &nbsp;I think this is a very useful idea.<br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=joule&ditemid=1745" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments https://joule.dreamwidth.org/1745.html issues public marnanel 3