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It is noticeably slower now.

>>rhacke+(OP)
It actually seems faster for me compared to the past two weeks. Not sure if I was being throttled or something, at times it felt like it.

>>rhacke+(OP)
I'm worried about that too. Don't have good data or even consistent gut feelings yet.

The big test will be when we hit peak load, perhaps on Monday or Tuesday.

>>metada+W3
We don't throttle specific users*. At one time we did (it was called slowbanning) but that's been gone for close to a decade now.

It's a bit disconcerting how often I say "close to a decade now" now.

* Edit: we do rate-limit some accounts (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), which throttles how much they can post to the site, but we don't throttle how quickly they can view the site.

>>dang+7h
Thanks for the disclosure, if it gets crazy slow many I'll shoot you an email next time.

>>rhacke+(OP)
Where are you located?

Ever since I read someone's comment that 'HN is the fastest site they regularly visit', I've wondered if that's because they're in the western US (where HN is hosted).

I am in Western Europe and HN is decently fast, but tweakers.net and openstreetmap.org are faster.

>>dang+Wg
I think overall the feeling of "slowness" last week may have been from everyone coming back in all at once or something. It seems just as fast as it was again.