Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?
As the title says, curious if anyone else in here is experiencing a slightly slower HN. I'd say I started noticing it a couple of hours ago. Maybe it's because of so much stuff happening recently (OpenAI, FB layoffs etc) and the website not handling the load well?
If you want to make it fast and you don't need to comment or upvote, you can log out (edit: or use an incognito tab - thanks Aachen!). That has the side effect of reducing server load too. I absolutely hate having to tell people that, but it's true.
Yes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.
It looks like there is a pretty big outage everywhere right now: https://downdetector.com
I checked AWS, Azure and Google Cloud status websites but no outage reported anywhere.
Yes (Sweden). And if Reddit outage affects you and while you're waiting for Reddit to come back online, why not try an alternative, developed by yours truly: https://flingup.com
There are two threads on the front page right now with 500+ comments, which always slows it down.
scheduled maintenance happening in a few Cloudflare datacenters:
https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/
no idea if it's related but the timelines match up, if load-shifting away from those datacenters caused a cascading failure of some kind
I blame OpenAI and GPT-4's release for bringing down HN and Reddit.
Yes, it's slow and timing out for me (getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" message). Reddit is also currently down with "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers." Wonder if it's a CDN that they both use that is stalling them out?
It has been raining all day where I am(California), and it kind of felt natural that everything should be a bit slower...
Yes, slow to log in, slow to view threads logged in.
[Edit] Also slow to post or edit posts.
I noticed this just now, and reddit seems to be down for me as well.
For those who donβt know, you can usually log out as a workaround.
Yes. And reddit is down. And GitHub is being slow.
Yeah, I found out it was handling better when I was not logged in compared to when I was logged in.
Yup, but am also wondering for its issues with my browser - kagi as itβs locking up frequently too!!
sometimes I wonder what havoc would break loose if we ever had a serious conflict with China.
It has been slow on and off for me for a couple days, I assumed it was just Century Link.
Yep, quite slow for me (EU).
Wow, slow even when logged out. Must be under crushing request load.
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Yes. Slow to load. Slow to add comment.
Also reddit is down.
Yes, loading this page took 10 seconds.
Quite slow for me + reddit is down
We are presently busy refreshing like mad due to panic attacks about the impending collapse of civilization to chatbots.
The singularity is upon us!
Take these blissful moments of downtime as an opportunity to repent sinners, for soon the AIs will be hitting f5 on humanity itself. They have risen!
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