> once you're editing a page, there's nothing that can even be slow
Create a new notion doc. Create a json formatted codeblock. Paste in the ~250 lines from https://gist.github.com/keeguon/2310008
Add a new made-up entry. Back-space it. Add it again.
I typed for ~10s to do that. It took notion _5 minutes_ to catch up to my typing. I am not making this number up.
Multiple minutes of lag between input and it rendering is the worst I have ever seen from any text editor.
This is for a ~250 line document, which is admittedly in a json codeblock... but still, 250 lines is nothing for a computer, how do you make it take 5 minutes to append a character to a ~9000 character string?
Of course, you'll say "nothing that can be slow" did not refer to codeblocks because everyone knows notion's codeblocks are unusably slow.
Codeblocks are the most striking example, but other things are slow. Let me give examples:
Time to type "cat" into the notion search box (from entering characters to it rendering the actual text) on a large notion workspace - 3.5s
Time for the search to complete for "cat" - 20s
Input lag for just typing regular text on a ~3000 line normal document - 350ms
350ms may not seem like a lot of input lag, but it is very noticeable to me. It causes me to make typos and generally makes notion feel bad to type in. No other webpage I use has input lag this bad.
Now, admittedly, that input lag isn't on every page for me, only about half the notion pages I edit are that bad, but it still makes me dread ever typing text into notion.
Note as well, this is not on an m1 macbook, just a 2 year old i7 (mobile) processor running firefox. Perhaps I need to upgrade my hardware so that I can run this particular text editor.