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Look, I like the way HN looks but there aren't many sites that essentially look like bare html but still struggle with displaying more than 300 comments.
by Fraterkes 1y ago
Look, I like the way HN looks but there aren't many sites that essentially look like bare html but still struggle with displaying more than 300 comments.
- mdp2021 1y agoWhat do you mean? With the current internals, a 300 posts HN page would weigh ~500kb; different ones will hardly be more compact. Where is the «struggle»?
- busymom0 1y agoNot sure about 300 comments but a post with 5300 comments takes about 10 seconds to load: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43208973 In March this year, HN changed pagination behavior. Previously, one needed to paginate through pages to read more than X comments. Around March, they now serve all comments at once. A post having over a thousand comments is extremely rare so not a big deal.
- tanjtanjtanj 1y agoThat page took well under 2 seconds to load on both desktop and mobile for me (wall clock).
- busymom0 1y agoFor me it consistently takes 8-10 seconds. Back in March, I reported it to dang too.
- krapp 1y agoHN has been known to fail in the past with heavy or high velocity threads to the point that dang has asked people to log off en masse to reduce server load. That shouldn't happen for a simple text forum.