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 [email protected] . 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.
[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…
I literally got some errors yesterday, something was up with it
I have repeatedly had this issue and clearing l.w cookies always seems to solve it. I don’t get what is going on.
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.
Thank your for chiming in. If you are located in the US, have you considered
- https://discuss.online/ for an instance that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
- https://lemmy.today/ for an instance that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
What about spam instances? Or is there another way that’s handled?
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.
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.
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.
Hm, that’s a lot
.ml has been loading slowly, and then the image thumbnails take even longer.
Is the whole network under a DDoS or something?
I wonder if it has something to do with the default Lemmy front end. I don’t have any slowness using Voyager on mobile or m.lemmy.world on desktop
Images have been fine for me, I’ve given up on videos
Very interesting. Are you in North America?
Yes.
You could maybe consider
- https://discuss.online/ for an instance that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
- https://lemmy.today/ for an instance that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
It’s ok, it’s really not putting me off of my Lemmy experience.
After being on reddit for over 10 years, in the grand scheme of things video only recently became functional before the entire site became unusable
I’m here for the long haul with the understanding that things will inevitably get better over time
I’m using Sync, so I cannot rule out that these problems originate there
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Not sure what to qualify lemmynsfw users 😅
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Hell yes. lemmy.world has always been slow for me. That’s why I switched!
Zero issues, everything works exactly as I expect
Not to say no issues exist, but I have encountered none, and that is data
Europe or North America?
North America. Is there a pattern of difference?
LW uses Hetzner, a German hosting company. The majority of people having issues seem to be from NA, which makes sense due to the further distance.
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.
Images are loading really slow for like 2 days. I am from EU.
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.
