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Many companies I worked with stopped working with Notion in the past because of performance problems, the application was simply too slow. Has this changed with

Many companies I worked with stopped working with Notion in the past because of performance problems, the application was simply too slow. Has this changed with the new sharded architecture, as I haven't used it since probably last year?

methyl 5y ago
I can notice the performance no longer being the problem for me. The only gripe I have with Notion is too much flexibility, it’s easy to completely mess something up even by accident.
- sergiotapia 5y ago
  Agreed, our Notion ended up being a soup of disparate outdated notes all over the place with no rhyme or reason across a 480+ employee business. I'm founding engineer of a new startup now and I advocated for Guru. https://www.getguru.com/ https://www.getguru.com/ I like how information is marked stale/verified and the permission are much tighter. The data ladder is also better structured. I'll see how it works as our headcount increases.
- lucis 5y ago
  You mean editing documents you're just taking a look? Notion has a lock feature [1] on a document-level. [1] - https://www.notion.so/Lock-page-content-d2b995727c0b483f9f3518c1eb4fab75 https://www.notion.so/Lock-page-content-d2b995727c0b483f9f35...
tempest_ 5y ago
The app is a lot more snappy, not super fast, but usable. Search is still pretty slow.
alberth 5y ago
Curious, what app have you seen people migrate too?
hinkley 5y ago
From personal experience (not with Notion) once you fall behind it’s hard to catch up, and nobody declares an emergency until it’s already happening. Doing big surgery takes time, meanwhile your workload continues to grow and grow. It’s not uncommon for a major win to only reset the clock by 6-12 months, and then you either have to run to the next one, or you have two teams working on separate angles at the same time. All the while people are learning as they go because the business settled on catch-up instead of capacity planning. Being a little successful can be tough.

methyl 5y ago

I can notice the performance no longer being the problem for me. The only gripe I have with Notion is too much flexibility, it’s easy to completely mess something up even by accident.

sergiotapia 5y ago
Agreed, our Notion ended up being a soup of disparate outdated notes all over the place with no rhyme or reason across a 480+ employee business. I'm founding engineer of a new startup now and I advocated for Guru. https://www.getguru.com/ https://www.getguru.com/ I like how information is marked stale/verified and the permission are much tighter. The data ladder is also better structured. I'll see how it works as our headcount increases.
lucis 5y ago
You mean editing documents you're just taking a look? Notion has a lock feature [1] on a document-level. [1] - https://www.notion.so/Lock-page-content-d2b995727c0b483f9f3518c1eb4fab75 https://www.notion.so/Lock-page-content-d2b995727c0b483f9f35...

tempest_ 5y ago

The app is a lot more snappy, not super fast, but usable. Search is still pretty slow.

alberth 5y ago

Curious, what app have you seen people migrate too?

hinkley 5y ago

From personal experience (not with Notion) once you fall behind it’s hard to catch up, and nobody declares an emergency until it’s already happening. Doing big surgery takes time, meanwhile your workload continues to grow and grow. It’s not uncommon for a major win to only reset the clock by 6-12 months, and then you either have to run to the next one, or you have two teams working on separate angles at the same time. All the while people are learning as they go because the business settled on catch-up instead of capacity planning. Being a little successful can be tough.