A few Lemmy.world users have been complaining that the website is slow for them, what is your experience?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Most recent example:

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.

A Request to the Fediverse Community - Lemmy.World

With the recent happenings in the United States, the dangers of the privately owned Internet is more apparent than ever, and frankly, it’s scary. And so I’d like to make a simple request to anyone who is reading this; Please use the Fediverse, just a little more. I personally hate it when I’m stuck having to visit say, YouTube or Reddit to get information, or to entertain myself in quiet moments, and if you’re reading this, the likely chance is you’re the same. All I want to ask of you is to just comment a few more times, press send on that post that you felt wasn’t of enough substance to be worth anyone’s time. We have such a small community compared to everywhere else, but what we do have in common is that, in the grand scheme of things, we are the early adopters. And if we take that to heart and make this space a little bigger, maybe it will be just big enough we won’t have to visit walled gardens so often. Thank you :)

(lemmy.world)

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.

[sh.it.post] We're #5! We're #5! - lemm.ee

Just saw this on AskLemmy at .ml, thought this and chuckled, and now here we are. Will take the opportunity to thank our admins for what they do, and all you humans for being here and generally being cool.

(lemm.ee)

3rd comment below

So slow unfortunately

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(lemmy.world)

Note: if this post seems familiar, it's because it was originally posted on [email protected] . 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.

[a_a@lemmy.world]

[meta] Quite surprising and irritating that the same post you made in !asklemmy was deleted ! Did you manage to save the resulting comments ?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I have them on my version of the post, but it's a bit cumbersome to copy paste them here.

And yes, frustrating indeed...

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I have repeatedly had this issue and clearing l.w cookies always seems to solve it. I don’t get what is going on.

@[email protected]

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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.

@[email protected]

[shifty@leminal.space]

I can't post comments for the last couple days.

[happyskullsplitter@lemmy.world]

Images have been fine for me, I've given up on videos

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Interesting, so this is your first comment in a few days?

[dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world]

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.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Very interesting. Are you in North America?

[droporain@lemmynsfw.com]

Yes . world users are slow af.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Not sure what to qualify lemmynsfw users

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

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)

[shifty@leminal.space]

From my lemmy.world account. I cant post comments from that account at all.

[aaaa@lemmy.world]

Zero issues, everything works exactly as I expect

Not to say no issues exist, but I have encountered none, and that is data

[drspod@lemmy.ml]

.ml has been loading slowly, and then the image thumbnails take even longer.

Is the whole network under a DDoS or something?

[teft@lemmy.world]

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.

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Europe or North America?

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Hm, that's a lot

[blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Have you been banned? Do you see anything preventing you from commenting, or is it just slow?