AP Poll Week 4

[u/donald_flap]

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll#000001a0-257a-d09f-a9e4-75fbb1b90000

[u/lol_donkaments]

How is their site so buggy in 2026?

[u/jjtnd1 → u/lol_donkaments]

I imagine the traffic is crazy the first 20 minutes or so but yeah cmon

[u/radil → u/jjtnd1]

Should be easy to handle though, they've only been publishing this thing for a century. They know what the traffic surge is going to be, they can scale.

[u/PedroTheNoun → u/[deleted]]

I have to imagine the amount of scrapers they get hit with in the first 20 minutes is wild. 

[u/CaptainSnacks → u/PedroTheNoun]

ESPECIALLY with how easy it is to vibe code now.

[u/radil → u/[deleted]]

I also work in software. 20 minutes of scaling ~16 times a year seems like a no brainer. Probably doesn't cost them that much all things considered and it could be argued protects one of the most important brands in college football.

[u/radil → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, sure. But I get your point. I guess it just depends on how much they value brand image. You're probably right, some suit somewhere just says no and that's all there is to it.

[u/CashMoneyWinston → u/[deleted]]

Idk how much it would actually cost, but I can’t imagine the Associated Press is strapped with cash

[u/GoodGuyNixon → u/CashMoneyWinston]

Strapped for cash, or flush with cash?

[u/CashMoneyWinston → u/GoodGuyNixon]

I need more coffee

[u/deonteguy → u/[deleted]]

And convince your best tech people to work Sunday mornings?

[u/RatBastard_with_ADHD → u/radil]

AP Bro, do you even autoscale?

[u/stoneg1 → u/[deleted]]

20 min of scaling to serve 35 records is practically free. The cost is paying an engineer to implement it

[u/radil → u/stoneg1]

Surely they’re on aws or azure or gcp. Should be a few clicks lol.

[u/stoneg1 → u/radil]

They have got to be, no way ap has on prem servers. I would guess they contracted a company to set the site up and have no engineers

[u/radil → u/stoneg1]

Yeah, that's probably a safe bet.

[u/BantuLisp → u/radil]

Probably not worth to spend all that money to stabilize servers for a 20 minute surge 7 times a year

[u/BirdLawyerPerson → u/jjtnd1]

It's not even a dynamic site loading all sorts of user-submitted comments hitting the database, with a different view for each of billions of users (the same way that reddit/twitter/facebook show a different front page to different users who are logged in). It's a bunch of schools in the exact same order for everyone who comes to the site, refreshed once a week. That should just be cached text that the web server can spit out without any issues, no database hits whatsoever.

[u/DetroitvErbody → u/lol_donkaments]

Says our next game is 11/27. Helluva bye

[u/Jmc_da_boss → u/lol_donkaments]

Because software was hit with a nuclear bomb about a year ago and has gotten significantly worse continually sense then

[u/the_lost_carrot → u/lol_donkaments]

Yeah I didn’t realize Alabama’s next game is 11/21.

[u/dr_dan319 → u/lol_donkaments]

They're trying to match the competency of their voters

[u/BurmeciaWillSurvive → u/lol_donkaments]

It randomly just says Mississippi State plays Golden Eagles next week and doesn't even list the whatever school that is lmao

[u/Alkibiades415 → u/lol_donkaments]

8 hours later, and it still shows Georgia's next game as Florida (incorrect) and several others.

[u/ATXBeermaker → u/lol_donkaments]

I think it’s still hosted by Geocities.

[u/SantiagoAndDunbar → u/lol_donkaments]

Skewed logos. Wrong schedule. It’s a fucking joke how bad it is

[u/Sad_Speech_8802 → u/lol_donkaments]

Have you seen the ESPN app recently? Holy shit it’s been bad forever but now it’s actually unusable.