Real-time updating of topics freezes under high activity

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

@ljpp

But the audience has mostly (90%) stopped complaining and is focusing on the games

I would consider that a success.

@Paracelsus

Another thing is, when jumping to the first unread post, it can repeat this behaviour a few times (going to the same “unread post” a few times, although the first unread post position should have changed in each occasion).

Can you provide a repro here on meta? Probably not since it requires a large number of active users idling in the same topic at the same time?

My current thinking is we should build a live chat feature and instantiate it just-in-time, when you have…

• lots of users

• in the same topic

• at the same time

• then, and only then, instantiate a live chat box overlay and strongly push users into using that instead of replies, maybe even disable the ability to reply to the topic with

  Hey, it looks like what you really wanted was a chatroom… here it is, have fun!