@help any idea why micro.blog feels slow? Everything loads slow, posting takes a lot of time and even images & avatars are slow to load.
@preshit I haven't noticed that. Has it sped up for you? I've heard reports that it sometimes slower outside the US, but it shouldn't be that noticeable. We have some countries on our status page and could add more.
@help I love that status page. 🥰 But it's a bit misleading as micro.blog/status is an almost empty page with just an emoji.
On my connection right now (slow fiber at a cabin in Sweden), the emoji page takes around 0.5 seconds to load. www.manton.org, in comparison, at 4.5 MB loads in about 2.3 seconds. This page, hosted elsewhere, weighing in at 8.3 MB, takes 0.8 seconds to load.
Average measurements in Safari Web Inspector with cache disabled. Not too scientific, but at least it gives a hint.
@sod That’s a good point. Behind the scenes, the /status page is making multiple connections to check databases, etc. So it’s good for detecting problems but not necessarily speed.
@preshit Hey, aren’t you the same Preshit who had an Apple blog (Smoking Apples or something) back in the day?
@help Still seeing the same slowness. I only started the trial a few days ago, and have found it slow. I'm in Mumbai, India in a gigabit line, if that helps. What I post sometimes takes minutes to be posted on the timeline.
@preshit @help This confirms my experience too when I was in India recently albeit not on a gigabit line. I think @purisubzi recommended switching DNS servers at the router level.
@preshit @help I've seen where new posts take a while to post or never cross-post to Twitter. I get impatient and edit the post in some minor way and that often pushes it along on Micro.Blog and Twitter cross-post. Not sure what's happening but that is not a DNS issue. The site being slow overall could be though but changing DNS servers just for micro.blog is probably too much.