I'm making this as a hypothetical solution for sharding on RP realms as feedback. I'm tired of dealing with it, and it's time to rework it:
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Sharding needs to be reworked, especially on RP realms
Sharding is causing issues constantly on roleplay realms. Whenever there’s an ingame event (like Brewfest currently) it will consider the zone “current content”, and begins aggressive population distr...
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September 24, 2026 at 8:01 AM
I'm making this as a hypothetical solution for sharding on RP realms as feedback. I'm tired of dealing with it, and it's time to rework it:
us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/sha...
us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/sha...
There's also a reason why nobody ever fucking RPs in current content zones - it's because of sharding. Every single time it's because of sharding. It's extremely disruptive to RPers.
September 19, 2026 at 6:32 AM
There's also a reason why nobody ever fucking RPs in current content zones - it's because of sharding. Every single time it's because of sharding. It's extremely disruptive to RPers.
System Design - Sharding e Particionamento de Dados
Technical Blog
fidelissauro.dev
September 2, 2024 at 6:04 PM
who up sharding they relay
January 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
who up sharding they relay
System Design - Sharding e Particionamento de Dados
Technical Blog
fidelissauro.dev
January 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
sharding in stormwind is crazy right now
July 5, 2025 at 10:20 PM
sharding in stormwind is crazy right now
"shards" meaning... as in database sharding? or as in I sharded
August 26, 2024 at 3:01 AM
"shards" meaning... as in database sharding? or as in I sharded
The emotionally unclear sympathetic cost of looking at a person’s wikipedia page, glancing at its table of contents and only seeing
-Early Life
-“The Sharding Incident”
-Death
-External Links
-Early Life
-“The Sharding Incident”
-Death
-External Links
September 13, 2026 at 8:14 AM
The emotionally unclear sympathetic cost of looking at a person’s wikipedia page, glancing at its table of contents and only seeing
-Early Life
-“The Sharding Incident”
-Death
-External Links
-Early Life
-“The Sharding Incident”
-Death
-External Links
Putting this out now because I'm getting really tired of sharding breaking shit on RP realms. "but it's mildly current content" needs to fuck right off, sacrificing your players' experience isn't worth this shit
September 24, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Putting this out now because I'm getting really tired of sharding breaking shit on RP realms. "but it's mildly current content" needs to fuck right off, sacrificing your players' experience isn't worth this shit
I TYPE FAST AND HAVE ADHD, THE ONLY REASON I DON'T POST EVEN MORE IS BECAUSE I'M SHARDING MY RELENTLESS POSTING ACROSS THREE SOCIALS A HALF DOZEN DISCORD DMS AND A TWITCH CHAT
April 14, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I TYPE FAST AND HAVE ADHD, THE ONLY REASON I DON'T POST EVEN MORE IS BECAUSE I'M SHARDING MY RELENTLESS POSTING ACROSS THREE SOCIALS A HALF DOZEN DISCORD DMS AND A TWITCH CHAT
#limbuscompany
I'm sacrificing sharding Magic Bullet Outis for this instead
I'm sacrificing sharding Magic Bullet Outis for this instead
July 22, 2025 at 9:31 AM
#limbuscompany
I'm sacrificing sharding Magic Bullet Outis for this instead
I'm sacrificing sharding Magic Bullet Outis for this instead
modding and sharding and arcaned my pants
December 24, 2025 at 4:10 AM
modding and sharding and arcaned my pants
testing blobs with sharding by cid
January 21, 2026 at 7:58 AM
testing blobs with sharding by cid
Database Sharding Explained architecturenotes.co/p/database-s...
November 21, 2024 at 10:30 AM
Database Sharding Explained architecturenotes.co/p/database-s...
P.P.S. forever uses a different flavour of sharding thanks to forever being built from mainline code. Layers RIP.
September 24, 2026 at 5:36 PM
P.P.S. forever uses a different flavour of sharding thanks to forever being built from mainline code. Layers RIP.
glory to sharding
October 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
glory to sharding
There are like only three design patterns you need to use 80% to make stuff good and fast and elegant
Make it a lookup (hashmap)
Split it up into smaller pieces (sharding)
Combine it into one large piece (map reduce)
Make it a lookup (hashmap)
Split it up into smaller pieces (sharding)
Combine it into one large piece (map reduce)
July 16, 2026 at 12:49 PM
There are like only three design patterns you need to use 80% to make stuff good and fast and elegant
Make it a lookup (hashmap)
Split it up into smaller pieces (sharding)
Combine it into one large piece (map reduce)
Make it a lookup (hashmap)
Split it up into smaller pieces (sharding)
Combine it into one large piece (map reduce)
Devs, please minimize sharding on the WoW roleplay servers! @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com
#worldofwarcraft
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#worldofwarcraft
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Sharding on RP Servers still active in zones they shouldn't be and upcoming content will make it worse
Good evening, This is both a request for a fix to an issue, and a pre-emptive request to ensure the damage caused by upcoming content is minimised to Roleplaying servers. Once again, with the 11.1.7 ...
eu.forums.blizzard.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Devs, please minimize sharding on the WoW roleplay servers! @worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com
#worldofwarcraft
eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/sha...
#worldofwarcraft
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i'd like to order 1 more sharding phase for twililght highlands please
January 27, 2026 at 6:56 PM
i'd like to order 1 more sharding phase for twililght highlands please
did the brewfest dungeon thing, relogged in stormwind, came over to brewfest again and it has like 20 people
this was 100% sharding that fucked me over
this was 100% sharding that fucked me over
September 24, 2026 at 7:19 AM
did the brewfest dungeon thing, relogged in stormwind, came over to brewfest again and it has like 20 people
this was 100% sharding that fucked me over
this was 100% sharding that fucked me over
Sharding and farding
September 20, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Sharding and farding