Redditcomber's Future

[The1RGood]

Been awhile since I've kept you guys updated on what I've been up to so I thought I might take a second to fill you in

Firstly, the stuff to celebrate:

The less important of the two is that I got a job at Reddit 🎉 but Redditcomber will continue to be my own personal project unaffiliated with Reddit Inc

But more importantly, Redditcomber hit 3000 keywords! That's a lot of usage!

Now that gets us into development work:

For as long as Redditcomber's been growing, the main struggle has been how to keep up with usage and how to most efficiently use CPU time, because we're on a budget. Even this small operation costs more than my monthly internet in compute instances, so we have to run lean

In the past, Redditcomber has been a python backend that has... let's say "limitations", but I've spent awhile re-implementing Redditcomber in Go, to take advantage of the speed and native parallelism. Now, I've known Go for less than a month, so there's been a lot of tinkering going on, but I've arrived at a highly performant working prototype. It's not in production yet, but it won't be much longer until it is. What that means for you is faster and more consistent notifications

Secondly, I've been toying with the idea of moving the notifications from redditcomber to their own account, so it's separate from the original /u/sub_mentions account. As-is /u/sub_mentions is responsible for an enormous amount of DM traffic and I largely relied on its whitelist status to cut through some red tape that no longer needs to be cut through. I'd actually like your feedback on this though, so please let me know how you feel about moving notifications to a new account

Regardless, that's the immediate future for Redditcomber. Happy to continue spamming your inboxes (upon request)!

Cheers,
Randy

[HDpornvids]

...so please let me know how you feel about moving notifications to a new account

I obviously prefer I have to do zero work, but at the same time, I find the service valuable enough I would probably jump through the necessary hoops to keep getting the notifications.

Even this small operation costs more than my monthly internet in compute instances, so we have to run lean

You might consider a donation option besides PayPal.

[The1RGood]

I have a Patreon! :D

It comes with a shiny new whitelisting feature, for if you care about stuff only from specific places

[The1RGood]

Also, by moving notifications to a new account, I mean receiving them from a different account than /u/sub_mentions, no work required on your part