Tell HN: HN is slow if user is logged-in

4 pointskbns3 comments

Yes, because anonymous users see cached pages. Logged in users don't.

That's a different kind of "slow"; I've seen HN delayed a few minutes when viewed anonymously.

My understanding is that HN keeps sessions in RAM so if there are too many people using it concurrently it really lags.

I’ve been noticing that when I was using HN on a older device