Ask HN/PG: Leaderboard acting strange?

[johns]

This morning I was about 100 short of the leaderboard and made two submissions that got me about 60 points. A minute ago I was 95th and the 100th spot was at 3900 but now I'm 98th with the last spot at 4072. Any idea what's up with the fluctuating numbers?

[pg]

I just restarted the server. Users are lazily loaded, so the leaderboard will look odd for a brief period after a restart.

[ivankirigin → pg]

The 'submitted' link on the profile basically doesn't work http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=pg http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=ivankirigin

I suppose it is related to the lazy loading?

[pg → ivankirigin]

Yes, items are lazily loaded too. Responses to http requests get killed after 30 sec, so if the server has to load too much stuff to satisfy a request, it will die first.

It's always been this way. After the server has been running for a bit it stops being a problem.

[ivankirigin → pg]

Perhaps you should hide features that are likely going to be unavailable if the server recently restarted.

No need to send users down a rabbit hole, and certainly no need to waste the cycles on your machine.

[icey → ivankirigin]

Or limit it to far fewer results. I click the submissions link pretty frequently from my own profile as an easy way to check up on conversations on threads I've started. Now I feel kind of bad for doing it that way.

[davidw → pg]

Where's nickb?

[pg → davidw]

A couple weeks ago I added a recency threshold for the leaderboard. It's currently 100 days.

[lincolnq]

I'd be interested to see what fraction of the leaderboard users' karma comes from comments vs. stories.

[bdfh42]

And you care bacause?

[johns → bdfh42]

Pure curiosity of how it works. That's all. I don't really care either way where I rank.

[bdfh42 → johns]

I believe you...