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This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?

by pwned1 6y ago

MattGaiser 6y ago
Not just you. It is slow for me as well (Calgary, Canada).
ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
Me too (New York).
- fleaaa 6y ago
  Same here (Berlin).
stefan_ 6y ago
It's struggling. All the people freed up that think chatting in Slack is productivity?
alexiacob 6y ago
Same here (London)
rootusrootus 6y ago
It's quite fast for me. Edit: Not consistently, I guess. 9 out of 10 times it responds instantly, then it lags once in a while.
- MattGaiser 6y ago
  It is the replying that is particularly slow for me.
deleted 6y ago
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Scandiravian 6y ago
Several sites and services are lagging or slower than usual for me (facebook messenger, news sites, google)
dagmx 6y ago
In the other threads, there's been some theorizing that some central infrastructure is down or struggling. Perhaps AWS or the like.
- Scandiravian 6y ago
  It could just be an effect of people switching to "alternatives" from slack, effectively DDOSing those services. Notion just went down as well
kulor 6y ago
Witnessed this when Google went down in December. Seems like a thundering herd problem with tech folk flocking to HN for updates/discussion/gloating
mrlala 6y ago
Struggling for me as well.. reddit is as well. But I'm finding other sites are just fine.
easton 6y ago
It isn’t just you, but due to Hacker News’ right-sized[0] infrastructure, you should sign out unless you need to comment. That way you hit the caches instead of getting the server to make you a new page. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461
- minitoar 6y ago
  Is this still true? Asking because that comment from dang is 4 years old.
- btmiller 6y ago
  That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).
  - kortilla 6y ago
    It is “right-sized” if it happens so rarely that it realistically causes no problems.
    - btmiller 6y ago
      Rare is not never.
      - kortilla 6y ago
        But never isn’t necessarily a reasonable goal. People will tolerate outages when it’s not lost money/business.
tannhaeuser 6y ago
Other than it being days of slow news, with top stories seemingly pinned for days now and boring, no ;) you know, where Slack being down is considered newsworthy (yawn).
dang 6y ago
Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115

This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?

by pwned1 6y ago

This site seems to be lagging as well. Or is it just me?

MattGaiser 6y ago

Not just you. It is slow for me as well (Calgary, Canada).

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

Me too (New York).

fleaaa 6y ago
Same here (Berlin).

stefan_ 6y ago

It's struggling. All the people freed up that think chatting in Slack is productivity?

alexiacob 6y ago

Same here (London)

rootusrootus 6y ago

It's quite fast for me. Edit: Not consistently, I guess. 9 out of 10 times it responds instantly, then it lags once in a while.

MattGaiser 6y ago
It is the replying that is particularly slow for me.

deleted 6y ago

[deleted]

Scandiravian 6y ago

Several sites and services are lagging or slower than usual for me (facebook messenger, news sites, google)

dagmx 6y ago

In the other threads, there's been some theorizing that some central infrastructure is down or struggling. Perhaps AWS or the like.

Scandiravian 6y ago
It could just be an effect of people switching to "alternatives" from slack, effectively DDOSing those services. Notion just went down as well

kulor 6y ago

Witnessed this when Google went down in December. Seems like a thundering herd problem with tech folk flocking to HN for updates/discussion/gloating

mrlala 6y ago

Struggling for me as well.. reddit is as well. But I'm finding other sites are just fine.

easton 6y ago

It isn’t just you, but due to Hacker News’ right-sized[0] infrastructure, you should sign out unless you need to comment. That way you hit the caches instead of getting the server to make you a new page. 0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461

minitoar 6y ago
Is this still true? Asking because that comment from dang is 4 years old.
btmiller 6y ago
That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).
- kortilla 6y ago
  It is “right-sized” if it happens so rarely that it realistically causes no problems.
  - btmiller 6y ago
    Rare is not never.
    - kortilla 6y ago
      But never isn’t necessarily a reasonable goal. People will tolerate outages when it’s not lost money/business.

tannhaeuser 6y ago

Other than it being days of slow news, with top stories seemingly pinned for days now and boring, no ;) you know, where Slack being down is considered newsworthy (yawn).

dang 6y ago

Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115