Ask HN: Is HN slow for you lately? Or even not responding?
For the past month or so, HN has been getting slower and slower. Do you experience that? A few minutes ago it was not even responding.
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The recent surge in self referential threads has felt Reddit-esque.
Polls about which text editor people use are the same, because they're just going to be repeated by newbies every few months.
My opinion is that self-posts should be on a separate page, by themselves.
Traffic has been steadily increasing, and quite simply, the system can't handle the load at peak usage. I am, however, working to resolve some of these issues, but it may still be awhile before you see any improvements.
Incidentally, Paul was working on search around this time last year. I wonder what happened to that.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468256
Also, for what it's worth, I've been flagging most of these posts as they aren't intellectually stimulating and are almost as meta as this comment thread. :-) (Doesn't bother me in comments, but 4 out of 5 top stories being about Hacker News is dumb.)
Also, perhaps there's something to learn from the issue, in other words it's relevant (it's both hacker and news)
Otherwise, yes, I agree: this is meta news.
(= nourl-factor* .1)
Better now?
I am not sure what else we are supposed to to - email pg and complain about its slowness ?? ;)
Incidentally, I did submit that as a feature request:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468256
Why not just keep it all in memory? We talk a lot, but it doesn't seem like the database should be all that large...
Maybe that'll help.
Edit: Paul's post here made that link irrelevant.
I've just been playing around with the source code to see if I could figure out why it would lose the port, but the only thing I can think of is if the whole mzscheme process dies, otherwise it would just hang while trying to connect and it doesn't do that.
How big is the working set of HN ?
Many times when it hangs for me, I seem to get the "static" parts of the page (title, upper bar) and as soon as the dynamic parts would be expected to load it hangs or times out or goes very slowly.
But it seems to be recent -- I can't recall it happening before this week.
Yes, I've noticed a lot of slowdown as well, primarily when viewing comments.
Stop meta-referencing - go make something.