hi cyle! Is there anything that can be done about the tags on older posts not showing up in the new integrated comments and tags view function?
\n\n"}\n\n\n\n\n\n\ncyle:
\n\nnot at the moment, no. we have a way of backfilling them, but we\u2019d have to literally crawl through the billions of reblogs on tumblr to do it, so it\u2019s not something we can do quickly/easily. it\u2019s not at the top of our todo list.
but it\u2019s a fun problem at tumblr\u2019s scale! let\u2019s say there\u2019ve been an average of ~10 million reblogs made per day over 15 years of tumblr\u2019s existence (that\u2019s probably not the real average, this is just an exercise), that\u2019s a little under 55 billion reblogs total so far. we don\u2019t have a quick way of knowing whether a reblog has added content and/or tags, so we\u2019d need to go through each one of them, one at a time.
if we could do this process of checking and updating them at \u2026 let\u2019s say 50 posts per second to be cautious\u2026 we\u2019d be able to do only 1.5 billion of them in a whole year\u2026\u2026. it\u2019d take 36 years to get through them all. we could probably do it much faster than that, but even at 500 posts per second, it\u2019d take three and a half years of non-stop checking old posts to update \u2018em all.
fun problem! lots of other ways of doing this kind of thing, but just a little sample of how crazy it can be to work at tumblr\u2019s scale.
cyle this is a joke, right? like you\u2019re playing up how hard this would be to do in a way that\u2019s not quite accurate?
damn frank get his ass
Frank\u2019s not responsible, he just likes to play tricks