Yes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25635115

It's struggling. All the people freed up that think chatting in Slack is productivity?

Witnessed this when Google went down in December. Seems like a thundering herd problem with tech folk flocking to HN for updates/discussion/gloating

It isn’t just you, but due to Hacker News’ right-sized[0] infrastructure, you should sign out unless you need to comment. That way you hit the caches instead of getting the server to make you a new page.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12911461

That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).

It is “right-sized” if it happens so rarely that it realistically causes no problems.

Rare is not never.

But never isn’t necessarily a reasonable goal. People will tolerate outages when it’s not lost money/business.

Is this still true? Asking because that comment from dang is 4 years old.

It's quite fast for me.

Edit: Not consistently, I guess. 9 out of 10 times it responds instantly, then it lags once in a while.

It is the replying that is particularly slow for me.

Several sites and services are lagging or slower than usual for me (facebook messenger, news sites, google)

Other than it being days of slow news, with top stories seemingly pinned for days now and boring, no ;) you know, where Slack being down is considered newsworthy (yawn).

Not just you. It is slow for me as well (Calgary, Canada).

In the other threads, there's been some theorizing that some central infrastructure is down or struggling. Perhaps AWS or the like.

It could just be an effect of people switching to "alternatives" from slack, effectively DDOSing those services. Notion just went down as well

Same here (London)

Me too (New York).

Same here (Berlin).

Struggling for me as well.. reddit is as well. But I'm finding other sites are just fine.