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Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

by polote 6y ago

davnicwil 6y ago
Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down? Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats? Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins! Update: 1500 in ~40 mins Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)
- mrtksn 6y ago
  > I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down? Probably: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
- TonyTrapp 6y ago
  The recent youtube-dl takedown had a similar number of votes but still slightly slower, I think. I think it was >500 in 30min and >1000 in 60min if I remember correctly.
- SSLy 6y ago
  reddit, nanog, 4chan, twitter — pick your poison
  - devenblake 6y ago
    "poison" is a particularly apt description for all of the above
- Macha 6y ago
  Some politics topics have shot up pretty quickly in the past but user and/or mod flags send them back to page 2 about as quickly.
  - throwawaylolx 6y ago
    Funny this post is already #7. Are we seeing many reports again? Stats right now: 1985 points | 1 hour ago | 597 comments
    - Macha 6y ago
      Maybe, could have just seen a dropoff in upvotes once the issue was resolved also
- CRConrad 6y ago
  /. , of course.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
tuxone 6y ago
Accessing the site anonymously fixes it (logged sessions are not chaced)
marcbarbosa 6y ago
HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.
- rmujica 6y ago
  TIL. What for?
  - porkbrain 6y ago
    The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase. https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
- qwertox 6y ago
  Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?
- ratww 6y ago
  Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage. There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.
ksec 6y ago
HN was having problem showing anything for the past 10 min or so. I was going to ask if HN was down, then I saw this.

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

by polote 6y ago

Seems like everyone going on HN now. The site is so slow

Interesting cascade effect of sites going down! I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down? Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats? Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins! Update: 1500 in ~40 mins Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)

mrtksn 6y ago
> I wonder where people will go next to check if HN is down? Probably: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
TonyTrapp 6y ago
The recent youtube-dl takedown had a similar number of votes but still slightly slower, I think. I think it was >500 in 30min and >1000 in 60min if I remember correctly.
SSLy 6y ago
reddit, nanog, 4chan, twitter — pick your poison
- devenblake 6y ago
  "poison" is a particularly apt description for all of the above
Macha 6y ago
Some politics topics have shot up pretty quickly in the past but user and/or mod flags send them back to page 2 about as quickly.
- throwawaylolx 6y ago
  Funny this post is already #7. Are we seeing many reports again? Stats right now: 1985 points | 1 hour ago | 597 comments
  - Macha 6y ago
    Maybe, could have just seen a dropoff in upvotes once the issue was resolved also
CRConrad 6y ago
/. , of course.
deleted 6y ago
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tuxone 6y ago

Accessing the site anonymously fixes it (logged sessions are not chaced)

marcbarbosa 6y ago

HN uses Firebase, maybe that is the reason.

rmujica 6y ago
TIL. What for?
- porkbrain 6y ago
  The very least public APIs are exposed via firebase. https://github.com/HackerNews/API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
qwertox 6y ago
Does this site also use Firebase, or do they only feed Firebase's Database so that other developers can build upon it?
ratww 6y ago
Any source for that? Last information I have is that it's written in Arc Lisp and uses files rather than a database for storage. There is a public API on Firebase, but AFAIR it's just a mirror rather than the main storage.

ksec 6y ago

HN was having problem showing anything for the past 10 min or so. I was going to ask if HN was down, then I saw this.