Is Hacker News Slow for You?
When it finally loads, the style and images are missing. Is it just me?
As hacker news was a fun project for Paul, I'd imagine he doesn't want to touch a relational database with a ten foot pole; I don't blame him. You can get a long way without ever using a real database, files and in memory hash tables work fine up to a pretty decent amount of traffic. It only becomes problematic when you need more than one server.
I guess it's one way to tell if the server's been restarted since I last was here. :)
Oh and it took three tries to post this comment, I kept getting timeouts.
I've always found it a bit ironic that a website where there's probably one of the highest concentration of good coders/web people was so slow and unreliable. But maybe that's just the nature of the beast; reddit is slow too, and they have a lot more resources.
But the "threads/comments/submissions" pages are almost always slow.
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Plus I get that "unknown or expired link" error sometimes when trying to post (including when trying to post this message). This seems to occur when clicking on a thread from the front page loads an out-of-date version of the thread, and can be fixed by force-refreshing the thread page.
However... The 'GREEN Certified Site' image now loads after about 6 months as a dead image!