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Niki Tonsky

@sayrer @tolmasky why should it be unpredictable? What’s wrong with guessing next link?

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sayrer

@nikitonsky @tolmasky you can write a bot to fetch them all without reading them.

Niki Tonsky

@sayrer @tolmasky well, first, you can write bot either way.

Second, what’s the problem with that?

sayrer

@nikitonsky @tolmasky it's because it is a natural rate limiter (they have to parse the response to get only one next link). This is not a security mechanism, just cost savings. Old content is more expensive to serve than new content, this is how Twitter, IG, and even Netflix work. There is a computer in my local ISP that holds the current popular movies. Same idea, but for the Redis or edge server that powers your website.

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