As a former colleague put it, “what an oddly specific number!” – #Parler was not designed by anybody in the expectation of growth

For non-programmers: the biggest number which you can easily represent in a legacy 32-bit binary signed number, is approximately 2.1 billion. That may sound like a lot but it isn’t really – a few million users each doing a few thousand things will overflow it.

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