Threaded comments have been disabled at Slashdot today. ⇒
9 November 2006, mid-afternoon
Why? "Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 224, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) but neglected to change the index that handles parents. We're awesome!"
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