Hacker News Reader

Might be a good time to give a shout-out to teddit (https://teddit.net), which you can even self-host if that kind of thing floats your boat.

View on HN

A similar alternative is the open source and self-hostable libreddit: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

Available public instances: https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit-instances/blob/master...

Note that both teddit and libreddit are both read-only frontends to reddit.

It's so slow though. Is there a way we can help the contributors to make it faster?

Well it is Free Software (<https://codeberg.org/teddit/teddit>, AGPL license (best license)), so anyone who is interested can do some profiling to see where the slowness comes from. Without doing any of that myself I would hazard a guess that the issue would be either of:

A: The Reddit API being slow or rate limited.

B: The site being hosted on a cheap VPS.

If the second issue is at play you could speed things up by running it locally (the README file includes instructions to do so with either Docker Compose or directly via Node).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com