Last modified: 2014-09-25 12:34:44 UTC
Edits after the last update on existing items will increase the size of the item, because now there are '"badges":[]' in it. Thats maybe a migration from old items, but this will contribute byte differences to a user, which maybe only changed one byte in that and makes a list with byte differences useless. Maybe there is need to migrate the json format, but there is no need to story empty arrays in the json written to database (That also applied to "refs":[] on claims).
Would still be nice to store the json in a minified version, that means all unneeded json structure like empty arrays get removed before save. This saves space on the database and on dumps, that means also lower network connection, because dumps will go to third parties. And the confusiong byte difference for items which gets first edited after the badges was added to json will gone away. So please try to store the only needed parts of the json. Thanks.
The whole structure changed so the byte difference is there no matter what. The difference of the changes besides that is minimal and intended.
