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A few Lemmy.world users have been complaining that the website is slow for them, what is your experience?

Most recent examples, seems like Americans users are mostly impacted.

the site (or at least lemmy.world) is sooo slooow. Basic functions like loading images take me back to the dial-up era of “click the image then do something else while it loads,” which is downright ridiculous in the 2020s. Again I’ve stuck with it because I want to support the fediverse, but 99% of users won’t.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14645438

Additional example

It also doesn’t help that it’s slow as fuck on desktop compared to the others I tried.

Is lemm.ee much faster than lemmy.world for you?

Yes, MUCH. Sh.itjust.works is much faster as well. I don’t know if it’s because LW is still on 0.19.3 or what, but it’s a very significant difference.

https://lemm.ee/post/53056454/17657107

3rd comment below

So slow unfortunately

https://lemmy.world/comment/14661546

Well, it took me 2 page load attempts and 60 solid seconds to get as far as being able to leave this comment, so… Yeah, sometimes it is slow as dirt.

https://lemmy.world/comment/14676091

Images have been fine for me, I’ve given up on videos

https://lemmy.world/comment/14676052

Note: if this post seems familiar, it's because it was originally posted on !asklemmy@lemmy.world . It has since then been removed as a "support question". Not sure why asking people if they've been impacted about the instance that hosts 30% of the whole Lemmy userbase is a support question, but I'll revisit that tomorrow.

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  • For me when I find .world slow I go clear my cache/site data for .world. For some reason .world stores GBs of data in cookies or site data and I find when it gets slow it's usually because the size has grown to above 1.5GB.

    • This is a problem with all instances and has been only recently mitigated against. I deleted 2.7gb site cache for our instance.

      Once LW finally upgrades they definitly need to inform their longer time users to wipe the site cache in their browsers.

    • It took me about 40 seconds to load this comment section, then I cleared the cache as you suggested and it feels like modern internet again. Crazy. It was sitting at 2.1 GB stored for the site.

    • Hm, that's a lot

  • Hell yes. lemmy.world has always been slow for me. That's why I switched!

  • NA here. It's loading perfectly fine for me right now on the desktop site. Pages I've never opened before are loading in like 1/10th of a second for me.

    I'm also not signed in from this computer, though (can't remember my LW password and haven't bothered to check). Not sure if that's making any difference, but figured I'd provide my perspective from a logged-out user.

  • I did notice some slowdown fetching new posts last week in the all page from my instance, but locally it was fine.

    Its seems to have gotten better since 2 or 3 days ago.

  • No real issues with speed, it seems fine. I do have a bit of downtime but nothing unreasonable, maybe 2-3 times a week I won’t be able to access it at all for maybe 10 min max but it’s not often enough to be a real problem and it could be something on my end.

    Being unable to post from behind a VPN is annoying though, I don’t necessarily want my employer to know what I’m doing with my phone on the company Wi-Fi in my downtime.

    @Chainweasel@lemmy.world

  • [meta] Quite surprising and irritating that the same post you made in !asklemmy was deleted ! Did you manage to save the resulting comments ?

    • I have them on my version of the post, but it's a bit cumbersome to copy paste them here.

      And yes, frustrating indeed...

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