HN is the single slowest website I use regularly and not just because the www server was cut off today. Typical page loads are 10+ seconds and if I want to view my threads page it usually times out before finishing on the first request (sometimes it's the same for the home page). It's quite absurd considering the audience.
Oh and it took three tries to post this comment, I kept getting timeouts.
Same here. Very slow for me, and when I try to load my comments or submissions pages, I often get a timeout and have to try 2-3 times.
I've always found it a bit ironic that a website where there's probably one of the highest concentration of good coders/web people was so slow and unreliable. But maybe that's just the nature of the beast; reddit is slow too, and they have a lot more resources.
Perhaps it's you, or latency to you, the sites always quite snappy and fast for me and I never see load times like that. Most pages load in 700-800 milliseconds for me and pretty much always have.
From what I've read it's because pg uses this as a playground for arc and is far from optimized. It would be great if he got some help from the community though, it is embarrassingly slow.
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HN is the single slowest website I use regularly and not just because the www server was cut off today. Typical page loads are 10+ seconds and if I want to view my threads page it usually times out before finishing on the first request (sometimes it's the same for the home page). It's quite absurd considering the audience.
Oh and it took three tries to post this comment, I kept getting timeouts.
Same here. Very slow for me, and when I try to load my comments or submissions pages, I often get a timeout and have to try 2-3 times.
I've always found it a bit ironic that a website where there's probably one of the highest concentration of good coders/web people was so slow and unreliable. But maybe that's just the nature of the beast; reddit is slow too, and they have a lot more resources.
Perhaps it's you, or latency to you, the sites always quite snappy and fast for me and I never see load times like that. Most pages load in 700-800 milliseconds for me and pretty much always have.
Other sites in the same data center are snappy and I've read enough other identical complaints to be sure that it's not just me.
Not all pages are slow, and not all the time (though pretty frequently).
But the "threads/comments/submissions" pages are almost always slow.
From what I've read it's because pg uses this as a playground for arc and is far from optimized. It would be great if he got some help from the community though, it is embarrassingly slow.
The same here. That was AFTER the fix that pg announced of changing his static content over to a new hosting service.