discuss.pixls.us very slow to load - sometimes!

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I don’t know if this is a problem at my end or not… ?

Sometimes (a lot today) when I go to discuss.pixls.us (this site) it either won’t load (blank page) or does, but takes a v e r y l o n g time. As in 5+ min.
But once it has loaded it seems to work fine for a bit, then it sometimes bogs down again.
My internet (which is 4G mobile in a rural area) is a bit unreliable, but other sites are working fine.
I’m using Firefox, with AdNauseam (great btw) and trying to go the site from a ‘private’ window (so I’m signed out) doesn’t make any difference.
I often use a VPN, but turning on or off doesn’t seem to make much difference.

Any thoughts?

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Seems fine to me here in the UK.

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Right, that’s interesting. I might try using a friends computer, next time it won’t work here. It’s fine right now.
Thanks!

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it might be that you hit the moments when we just redeployed with a fix (which happened twice yesterday) the first few requests afterwards will be slow. another option that we have too many concurrent requests and your request is waiting in the queue.

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Hi @darix, both ideas sound possible… I don’t know anything really about this stuff, so I’ll take your word for it!
Thanks!

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I encounter slowdowns: usually for the reasons above. I regularly visit at the wrong time. :stuck_out_tongue:

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i bumped some limits for application server.

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It’s hit or miss with me. Sometimes the pixls.us site is markedly slower than any other website that I’m accessing at the same time in another tab (Firefox - latest build running on Linux/Manjaro).

Other times, it’s not so bad. But yeah, it typically runs slower in download/upload than most other sites I’m interacting with. Not a killer, but certainly noticeable.

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I’ve experienced the same in the last couple days, both times on mobile.

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Thanks all. It sounds like it’s not just my end anyway :grinning: It’s not usually a problem, although it seemed particularly bad yesterday. Fine now.

On a related note, has anyone known mobile service providers to throttle downloads, but not normal browsing or streaming? I always struggled with excessively slow download speeds which start out ok.
For example, downloading a raw file might start out at ~500kb/s (yes, slow, but ok for rural Aus) but it quickly slows to about 10-15kb/s.
This was a big pain until I tried using a VPN, and voila, the speed is fairly constant! I don’t know whether the VPN can affect anything else, or whether it’s simply down to hiding my stuff from the provider.

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Perhaps your VPN enjoys that super-deluxe international “Five-Eyes” intelligence alliance treatment? … you know, so they can monitor your feed instantly and not have to wait to see what you’re up to :wink:

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The worst is when I am composing a long/poignant[1] opening or regular post, things go awry and nothing saves. In that case, copying to an offline document is a lifesaver, but then my ancient laptop may also fail me…

[1] which is why I don’t do much of that. :stuck_out_tongue:

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I also experience slow / no loading quite often during the last weeks on Android with Firefox Nightly build. An app quit or sometimes a phone reboot will typically solve the problem.
More strange: a login with GitHub is no longer working on my Windows 10 Firefox 105 installation. Any ideas?

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