[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Is HN having issues?
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       Ask HN: Is HN having issues?
        
       Pages are loading slowly and sometimes returning "We're having some
       trouble serving your request. Sorry!"
        
       Author : yamrzou
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2022-12-18 22:06 UTC (55 minutes ago)
        
       | StreamBright wrote:
       | Yes it is barely accessibly from a location in Europe. Httping
       | gives me 1-2 seconds. Other sites hosted in the US are fine (for
       | me).
        
         | re9 wrote:
         | Same here, at times. Login page took good 3 sec to show, login
         | submit about the same. This page itself though, arrived
         | promptly. Parts of hn are struggling with something.
        
       | Rebelgecko wrote:
       | Yeah, maybe an unintentional DDOS from Twittee/Elon
        
         | sam1r wrote:
         | That and this is a huge deal, in today's times.
         | 
         | PG created this community, and elon musk is in charge of the
         | other one. Who isn't coming to hacker news to see the comments?
         | 
         | Let the fun begin.
        
       | kristianheljas wrote:
       | Can confirm, had to reload new page twice to look for this exact
       | thread.
        
       | acaloiar wrote:
       | Yes
        
       | tomalaci wrote:
       | For me it takes almost 10 seconds to load from Sweden/Stockholm.
       | So it may indeed be some sort of service issue.
        
       | nullish_signal wrote:
       | I was getting comment-banned after 5 in one hour (5-10 in 24
       | hours) Which lasted for 2 hours, and then happened again another
       | day.
        
       | eatbitseveryday wrote:
       | Browse the site logged out
        
       | [deleted]
        
       | capableweb wrote:
       | Someone asked the other day "How does Hacker News avoid
       | (successful) DDoS attacks?"
       | (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34001410) so obviously
       | someone is now trying to figure out how to work around it, and it
       | seems they succeeded!
       | 
       | Or, it's just busy :) I think the software in general have
       | problems with long/deeply nested comment chains so maybe having a
       | few of those being popular is enough to bring things to a halt.
       | 
       | By the way, you can usually work around performance issues on HN
       | by either logging out (removing cookies if it doesn't load) or
       | using incognito mode/private window (being logged out) as then
       | the software can just serve cache views instead of having to
       | fetch data on each navigation.
       | 
       | Edit: from the almighty dang:
       | 
       | > I've moved that one off the front page, partly because these
       | are more or less the same story, but mostly because the traffic
       | on this is boiling our poor server and I need to resort to
       | tricks. Sorry all!
       | 
       | From "Twitter Suspends PG's Account" -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044525
       | 
       | Seems Elon Musk/Twitter is the one to blame for HN being slow
       | right now.
        
         | ttyyzz wrote:
         | >I think the software in general have problems with long/deeply
         | nested comment chains
         | 
         | nah, look at twitter for example! i don't think that's the
         | reason of HN being slow/not responding..
        
           | fathyb wrote:
           | Twitter generally limits threads to < 20 replies, you need to
           | click a button to see more. Large HN threads have 500+
           | replies.
        
           | capableweb wrote:
           | I don't mean in the sense of "this is a hard problem in
           | computer science" but more "the specific software that runs
           | HN (Arc) haven't been optimized for this". That there is
           | pagination on the comment thread is something that was added
           | as a stopgap to prevent the issue from being even worse. At
           | one point, HN was almost unusable as lots of comment threads
           | hit the limit, so they added the pagination thing while
           | trying to figure out how to solve it properly. I'm sure if
           | you search for "by:dang pagination" or something similar you
           | can find more information about it.
        
       | eigart wrote:
       | Slow for me. I'm guessing traffic spike from the Twitter drama.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Yes, sorry. Unusual traffic, especially for a Sunday.
        
       | cesarb wrote:
       | Yeah, dang has just posted the following at
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34044475
       | 
       | "[...] but mostly because the traffic on this is boiling our poor
       | server and I need to resort to tricks. Sorry all!"
        
         | minimaxir wrote:
         | I am confused/curious why that one in particular is causing
         | server strain: HN has had much more contentious and faster
         | growing (points/comment-wise) posts.
        
           | morelisp wrote:
           | IIRC, replies are worse than top-level comments and everyone
           | was replying to Paul.
        
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