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HN is acting slow in responsiveness too, DDoS?
by doublerabbit 3y ago
HN is acting slow in responsiveness too, DDoS?
- mysterydip 3y agoGlad it's not just me. I usually use this site as a test to see if my connection is good.
- iLoveOncall 3y agoYou know there are websites made for that purpose like speedtest.net, right?
- tester457 3y agoBut those don't come with complimentary dopamine upon success.
- mysterydip 3y agoI should have said "one of". I know of other sites. I already have HN up in a tab. Hitting refresh to see response time is a first check before going to others.
- taneq 3y agoWhere else do you think the wave of reddit users will crash? Slashdot? Some federated assemblage like Mastodon or Lemmy? An indie clone trying to be to reddit what reddit was to digg? I'm guessing all of the above.
- FPL_Truth 3y agoThe "federated" alternatives are such crap. It's so user-unfriendly and confusing, there is no way a normal person would be able to enjoy browsing crap like lemmy/kbin.
- internetter 3y ago> It's so user-unfriendly and confusing This viewpoint is confusing to me. Conceptually, it's no different than email, and we all get by just fine on it
- mingus88 3y agoThat's a plus for me. I'm nostalgic as hell for the era of the internet where the barrier to entry meant your peers needed half a clue to be there. If the collapse of sites like reddit and twitter are what is needed for a return to smaller user-operated and user-owned sites to flourish, then so be it. I won't miss the memes.
- taneq 3y agoHuh? I clicked on both of them and if I wasn't paying attention I'd have thought I was on reddit. What's the problem? Or are you saying starting your own shard or node or whatever it's called is confusing compared with creating an account on reddit? Because if so they're totally different levels of thing.