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0 pointsmoralestapia1y ago0 comments

I can +1 with a similar anecdote.

They obviously have some really good engineers, but many low-tier ones as well. No idea how long they stay there, though.

I'm watching the fight now and have experienced the buffering issues. Bit embarrassing for a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this. Also, yeah, 900k TC and whatnot but irl you get this. Mediocre.

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spencerchubb1y ago

livestream is quite different from streaming pre-processed video, so I'm not surprised by the scaling issues

katbyte1y ago

i was mildly interested and managed to find a pirate livestream, it didn't have buffering issues lol

dh20221y ago

Well the pirate site was not live-streaming to 100 million users…

moralestapiaOP1y ago

I know.

But given how much they spend on engineering, how much time they had and how important this event is ... mediocre performance.

jhugo1y ago

All true, but this part of your GP comment:

> a company that fundamentally only does a single thing, which is this

… isn’t true. From the couch, watching Suits and watching a live sports match may seem similar but they’re very different technical problems to solve.

Moru1y ago

Or in other words: In one case the "stream" is stored on a harddrive not far away from you, only competing for bandwidth in the last section to you. In the other case the "stream" is comming over the Internet to you and everyone else at the same time.

anakaine1y ago

I have to wonder if its a regional thing. I'm watching from the southern pacific in HD, and its been excellent.

diab0lic1y ago

I’d imagine it is fairly dependent on which cache you’re connected to.

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