Ask HN: Does Reddit site performance seem to be getting worse?
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I access Reddit through the Teddit [1] proxies so my answer may not be entirely useful. Anecdotally I see the times for the proxies to fetch a Reddit thread appears to be getting progressively slower but that could also be them rate limiting the proxies for all I know.
[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-ted...
[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-to-ted...
I personally still use Reddit’s old UI[0] since they’ve updated it. Their new UI has just always run terribly compared to the old version.
0. https://old.reddit.com/
0. https://old.reddit.com/
Does reddit site performance seem to be getting worse and nothing being done by the admins about it?
So reddit has infinite scroll and after scrolling through a few hundred posts and watching a few videos, my fans turn on and my computer starts putting out a lot of heat. I even left a reddit tab open on accident one night and woke up to my laptop too hot to even sit on my lap. Once the reddit tab was closed I could immediately hear my fans wind down.
I have a 8 core processor and 8 gb of RAM, shouldn't that be enough? Should any website need to be using resources the way reddit does? This has been happening for so long that at this point I would think some of the blame needs to be placed on the engineers that designed the site.
I think one obvious solution would be to remove content from the DOM after the user has scrolled past it. Does every video I watch stay in memory until I close the tab? No wonder the video player stops working after I watch a few videos.
I'm using Chrome on Fedora 36 btw.