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Ask HN: Daily HN slowdowns to the point of being unusable
I've notice a serious slowdown in HN's service over the past couple of weeks. I'm the UK and it usually happens around 19:00 (trans: 7PM) onwards here most evenings. No other sites exhibit this problem, so it is not a local issue, although it might be compounded by something Interatlanticish. Up until this time of the eve all is hunky dory.
Symptoms are page loads with text, but text is enlarged, suggesting perhaps that the .css hasn't arrived. Also, the up and down arrows are left as placeholders.
Just want to ask if this is a general problem, and if so to give heads up to the sysadmins.
- MattJ100 16y agoYou're not alone. Interestingly I'm also in the UK, and that this post has gone so long with no comments/upvotes maybe we're in the minority :) I haven't associated it with particular times though. Just skimming the front page isn't terribly slow, it's bearable. But whenever I post a comment for example it can take up to a minute before the page loads, and I often see the large text/no CSS exactly as you describe.