Solid feedback, thank you. Hiding the low vote counts now as you are right that they undermine trust at this stage. Appreciate the domain note but we are committed to peakd.io at this point. Good luck to you too.
In the 90s, people thought about the c10k problem, which is how to handle 10000 connections.
In those days, this 2GB server would have been a dream to have and probably had moved the needle to 20k, 50k or whatever the limit is. You only get problems with 500 connections on a modern machine if you are really really bad at handling each request.
You are right, the server handled connections fine. The issue was a single unindexed correlated subquery blocking the entire PostgreSQL connection pool for 13 minutes. We live and learn.
Yes, did not mean to imply that everyone should know everything immediately, just that "the server was too small" feels a bit misguided. It might solve the problem to make the hw a real monster, but if you hit limits at 500 then I think one should look at the other parts of the equation. Glad you fixed it in the end.
Not a bug but I understand why it looked like one. We just switched to Bayesian scoring to prevent low vote entities gaming the rankings. Your vote is counted, it just takes more votes for the displayed score to diverge from the baseline. UX is being improved. On the bots point: votes are trust-weighted (account age, consistency, cluster detection) specifically for that reason. Appreciate you reporting it.
Rankings are trust-weighted — account age, voting consistency, and cluster detection make ballot-stuffing impractical. Companies pay for analytics and visibility, not influence over scores.
Thanks! Business model is already live — companies can claim their page (£99/mo for analytics, respond to reviews, manage their listing) and buy promoted placements that are clearly labelled as sponsored. Rankings themselves can never be bought. The trust is the product.
We have rank change notifications, personalised feeds based on your interests, and weekly digests already — signing up unlocks all of that. Glad it peaked your interest.
