I just finished re-coding the portion of the forum system I mentioned the past couple days.

So far, so good.

It basically amounted to changing one section of code, and everything fell into place on its own. Technically, it should be able to accommodate 9,999,999 posts per second. Not that that is likely to happen or that the server could even handle it, but I wanted to have plenty of leeway. Perhaps I tended toward overkill, but I’d rather have overkill than cut things too short, you know?

By comparison, Twitter’s maximum tweets per second so far was just short of 3,300 tweets per second. Twitter has probably over 20 million members or thereabouts. So, it’s likely very much overkill to be able to accommodate 9,999,999 posts per second. If 20 million members only results in a high of 3,300 tweets per second, I’d possibly need to have over 60 billion members. The population of the Earth is under 7 billion.

So, yeah, maybe it’s a bit of overkill, but hopefully that will help future-proof it.

And now it occurs to me that I may be able to make a small change to it to make it a bit easier too. Hmmm… I think I’ll go test that…

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