I'm in France and HN is almost always very responsive to me. I think one of the reasons why HN doesn't need to be "on the edge" as much as other applications is

I'm in France and HN is almost always very responsive to me. I think one of the reasons why HN doesn't need to be "on the edge" as much as other applications is that servers roundtrips are relatively rare as it's more of a website, compared to web applications. To reply to you I clicked "reply", I'll click it again to post, but that's two interactions with the server in the time it takes me to write this post. If you're on an application that has to do rountrips to the server for each interactions, it could be useful to be on the edge, I think.