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leokennis · 2021-09-10 06:58:51

Love the app but somehow it's very slow? I have a 300 Mbit/s connection and it's downloading at 55 kb/s...

EDIT: apparently luck plays a part. I stopped the download halfway. Then downloaded anew, and got 80 kb/s. Then canceled and restarted again, and then got 5 Mb/s...

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antimora | karma 3210 | avg karma 4.6 · | 2011-09-13 13:44:18

Is it me, or that app is super fast?

LandR | karma 3203 | avg karma 3.09 · | 2021-06-22 19:06:53+00:00

Yeah, same here. It's ridiculous slow.

maccard | karma 10305 | avg karma 2.29 · | 2022-02-19 06:44:01

The app is _significantly_ faster than the website. It's still slow, but it _works_.

maerF0x0 | karma 9213 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2020-11-17 18:46:20

Should be ShowHN:

Awesome app.

Really, really, slow on my end.

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momothereal | karma 673 | avg karma 3.94 · | 2022-09-02 16:50:54

It's up for me, but very slow.

moultano | karma 10384 | avg karma 5.57 · | 2014-12-07 15:57:34+00:00

The app is unbearably slow. I still use it, but it's unnecessarily frustrating. I'd attribute the decline in usage to it taking half a minute to refresh.

retube | karma 3591 | avg karma 2.8 · | 2022-08-16 06:50:05

I was thinking the same. However from the article it seems the issue is actually less with the downloading, but more with the parsing and execution, which is blocking, and has a material impact for users on slow devices.

dombili | karma 2009 | avg karma 8.17 · | 2013-02-04 08:16:58

I'm downloading one now, but it's EXTREMELY slow.

southerntofu | karma 3247 | avg karma 1.58 · | 2022-02-22 05:11:06

I don't see a reason it should be slow. Are you close to your host on the network? If you're using a hosted version (which i believe is hosted somewhere in Europe), it may just be a connectivity problem.

marginalia_nu | karma 21123 | avg karma 4.08 · | 2023-11-17 07:50:44

Yeah, it's slow to the point of being completely unusable on my phone.

PetrBrzyBrzek | karma 212 | avg karma 5.73 · | 2022-09-27 07:59:38

It's super slow for me.

llacb47 | karma 668 | avg karma 3.01 · | 2019-11-08 12:26:56+00:00

Their app is still slow...

thebouv | karma 813 | avg karma 3.04 · | 2017-02-07 18:54:38

I think I'll try that. Every time the lag happens I'm surprised by just how slow the app feels.

hollerith | karma 6663 | avg karma 1.52 · | 2012-03-20 18:52:30

That's odd. I haven't noticed any slowness (and I've loaded the OP several times today).

pavel_lishin | karma 46523 | avg karma 3.63 · | 2011-02-28 17:41:23+00:00

Is this incredibly slow for anyone else?

mhh__ | karma 13345 | avg karma 1.95 · | 2020-07-17 07:01:41

Faster relative to the website but reddits app just seems... ill. Just not very good.

I have been on connections ranging from 500k, to 500M, to ~2.1G (presumably bottlenecked on the wifi but you get the idea) and the app seems to load at exactly the same rate for me.

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rsynnott | karma 18312 | avg karma 2.1 · | 2020-09-15 15:14:28

I mean... is it? It feels a _lot_ slower than it used to, especially on slower devices.

Possibly that 700kB of random crap is implicated :)

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raymondh | karma 2427 | avg karma 6.6 · | 2021-10-04 11:42:12

It is slow for me too.

Swizec | karma 21302 | avg karma 3.64 · | 2016-03-21 18:03:00+00:00

HOW!? Mine is fast becoming unbearably slow.

Maybe I'm using the wrong apps.

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