That's simply not true.

weaksauce · on July 9, 2020

It does happen that you can have the setting on and them sending you to new reddit. It’s happened many times for me.

saati · on July 9, 2020

It did happen to me, but only a few times and it was transient, it seemed like the frontend can't reach the settings DB intermittently.

prophesi · on July 9, 2020

I'm really not sure if I can attribute Hanlon's razor to this. When you log in, that's by definition hitting the database, and should return your settings. Place that in a cookie/localstorage and it should still know your settings offline.

saati · on July 9, 2020

There is no single database at the scale reddit operates.

prophesi · on July 9, 2020

My bad, *a database.

I'm pretty sure I saw in an AMA that Reddit has an Accounts database (maybe split further by sharding) which I'd assume holds your settings as well.

But I rescind my point; it could very well be attributed to database infrastructure issues, whether that's hitting a shard with stale data, or splitting account settings to its own DB that it can't access when you log in.

weaksauce · on July 10, 2020

at this point they should have those setting at an equilibrium