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Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?
by elboru 5y ago
Is it just me or HN also feels kinda laggy?
- amelius 5y agoYes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first and second time.
- amelius 5y agoYes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first and second and third time.
- amelius 5y agoYes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first and second and third and fourth time.
- bradenb 5y agoThis is either a hilarious accident or genius comedy.
- tzs 5y agoThis is not too rare when HN is being slow and giving those "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" pages. If you get one of those on your comment submission you have no way to know if the trouble stopped it from accepting the comment or if it accepted the comment and ran into trouble then trying to display the updated thread. For some reason I can't even begin to guess at HN does not seem to have protection against multiple submissions of the same form, so if after getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" on your comment submission you hit refresh again to display the page and the form gets resubmitted, you get a duplicate comment.
- saagarjha 5y agoEarlier today when I was getting these I went to go check the page to see if the comment was posted there. More than once it said it failed but I was able to stop myself from trying again because it was actually there.
- flypaca 5y agoNot just you. It is very laggy on my end too.
- Jamie9912 5y agoYep, struggled to load the homepage and this
- Jyaif 5y agoWith the Facebook properties down, the rest of the internet will have a significant increase in usage.
- dcminter 5y agoPlus I don't know about you, but I came to HN just now specifically to check if there was any insight into why it was down! The thundering herd just arrived :)
- rocho 5y agoI can confirm, HN, GitHub and Slack are very slow for me as well. Google is very fast, on the other hand.
- yk 5y agoPeople either have to work, creating load on GitHub, or waste their time elsewhere, creating load on HN and Slack.
- alexellisuk 5y agoAlso slow here. I can't see anything on the AWS Service Dashboard https://status.aws.amazon.com https://status.aws.amazon.com
- 1_player 5y agoIn my experience, any service dashboard is useless unless the problem has been going on for so long (i.e. hours) that it is obvious something's wrong.
- erhk 5y agoAWS punishes its sysadmin teams for any downtime so there is heavy incentive to not report unless there os a community shaped gun pointed at your head. This is not a universal problem.
- erhk 5y agoAWS punishes its sysadmin teams for any downtime so there is heavy incentive to not report unless there is a community shaped gun pointed at your head. This is not a universal problem.
- pilsetnieks 5y agoAll running their DNS on AWS. My guess is that AWS is seeing a massive flood of failed and retried DNS requests for facebook properties, similar to what jgrahamc mentions here for Cloudflare: https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413 https://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/1445066136547217413
- rocho 5y agoI can confirm, HN, GitHub and Slack are very slow for me as well. Google is very fast, on the other hand. EDIT: actually HN failed to post this comment the first time I posted it!
- eeegnu 5y agoProbably people flooding in to see if anyone knows why things are down. Even Google speed test was down, presumably from too many people testing if it's their internet that's at issue.
- neom 5y agoHN lagging, BBC was also very laggy about 30 minutes ago, and 35 minutes ago our whole company got booted out of their various hangouts simultaneously apart from the people in the states.
- donkarma 5y agoyeah lagging for me too
- Yuioup 5y agoSame here. Sounds like another cloudflare-like problem.
- cvhashim 5y agoSome internet backbone provider is probably down itself.
- leafygreene 5y agoOr some country has started a war.
- i_like_apis 5y agoProbably traffic related. Lots of people reallocated to checking other sites.
- Romanulus 5y agoIt's all those people coming back to the real web.
- 14 5y agoDefinitely laggy for me as well. Went to Facebook and couldn’t so come here to check in and the load time made me think oh it must be my wifi is not working with 2 sites not opening then finally HN opened. Then tried to hit reply to your post and again seemed like it wouldn’t load then finally did. So yes laggy usually this is the one site that loads almost instantly.
- ourcat 5y agoHere too. Just had the "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" error.
- raymondh 5y agoIt is slow for me too.
- foobarbecue 5y agoInternet's got a case of the Mondays for sure
- rocky1138 5y agoA couple of years ago, an admin at Hacker News asked those of us who are just reading to log out because their system is architected in such a way that logged in users use more resources than anonymous ones. So, if you're feeling altruistic, log out of HN!
- busymom0 5y agoLogging out does work! Probably delivering a cache.
- comeonseriously 5y agoCan confirm. HN, YT, Google, etc are all a bit laggy for me at the moment (eating lunch so I'm trying to entertain myself).
- busymom0 5y agoYep. I am the developer of HN client HACK for iOS and Android and a bunch of users emailed me asking if my app was broken. Looks like something bigger is afoot.
- gridder 5y agoBest HN client app ever. Thanks for the great work!
- busymom0 5y agoThank you!
- alexdumitru 5y agoSomething's wrong with your app. It's not working at all, while Harmonic works perfectly.
- busymom0 5y agoHarmonic most likely uses Algolia for the data whereas my app uses the HN website. So Algolia delivers a cache copy from their own servers whereas mine scrapes the HN website itself. Hence the difference. Also logged out pages were working much better than logged in (HN delivers caches copies for logged out users).
- bentcorner 5y agoGeneral tip: If HN is being laggy and you're determined you want to waste some time here, open it in a private window. HN works extremely quickly if it doesn't know who you are.
- elboru 5y agoThat explains why it works fine in my computer, where I haven’t logged in. Thanks for the tip.
- quaintdev 5y agoThis works like charm. Thank you!
- iamthemalto 5y agoWow this really works, thank you. What actually is the reason for it being much faster in a private window? Is there so much tracking going on in a normal window?
- thinkingemote 5y agoits faster because the pages are cached, they are effectively static. It's slower when logged in because the pages are created dynamically as it has your username, tracking favourites, upvotes etc, and much of it cannot be quickly cached.
- ehsankia 5y agoHonestly surprised that HN, a website for techies, is so poorly coded. For example, the whole lack of proper "paging", with dang posting a disclaimer on every large thread for honestly over a year at this point and no progress. Or the fact that if you want to reply to a comment, it has to load a whole new page (which has to fetch more data from the server?) before getting to the comment box. Until recently, trying to collapse a large comment thread would also take 3s+ as I think it individually set the collapse state of every sub-comment?
- jose-cl 5y agoyes, me too (I'm in south-america)
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- amelius 5y agoYes, it's slow here as well, and posting this comment failed the first time.