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 !asklemmy@lemmy.world . 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.
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.
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.
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.
Hm, that’s a lot
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?
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
I have repeatedly had this issue and clearing l.w cookies always seems to solve it. I don’t get what is going on.
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.
I literally got some errors yesterday, something was up with it
Images are loading really slow for like 2 days. I am from EU.
Removed by mod
Hell yes. lemmy.world has always been slow for me. That’s why I switched!
[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 can’t post comments for the last couple days.
Edit: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world
Interesting, so this is your first comment in a few days?
From my lemmy.world account. I cant post comments from that account at all.
Edit: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world
Have you been banned? Do you see anything preventing you from commenting, or is it just slow?
When I click to post the comment, I get a loading circle gif that just spins forever. Tried waiting it out for a few minutes but nothing happens.
And to my knowledge lemmy doesnt do shadow bans so I would at keast know if I had been banned there.
Edit: previously I cleared cache, tried different browsers and devices, logged out and in again, nothing worked. I also just tested and I can’t create posts from lemmy.world account either.
Edit2: looks like it was related to VPN use and some flagging of my session/connection, maybe cloudflare on lemmy.world
That could indeed be the VPN use.
You could maybe consider
- https://discuss.online/ for an instance based in the USA that defederates lemmygrad and hexbear, similar to what Lemmy.world does
- https://sopuli.xyz/ for an instance based in Europe that also defederates lemmygrad and hexbear
- https://lemmy.today/ for an instance based in the USA that does not defederate anyone (their blocklist is literally empty)
- https://lemm.ee/ for an instance based in Europe that has a very short defederation list (like 4 entries: https://lemm.ee/instances)
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.
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
I did notice some slowdown fetching new posts last week in the all page from my instance, but locally it was fine.
Its seems to have gotten better since 2 or 3 days ago.
.ml has been loading slowly, and then the image thumbnails take even longer.
Is the whole network under a DDoS or something?
