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Hacker News too slow? Is it time for HN to switch to a different platform?

by durbin on 1/31/12, 1:48 AM with 7 comments

It seems as if the HN infrastructure hasn't been updated in a long time and is really slow for submitting or commenting on stories. Is is time to switch HN to a different platform?

  • by pg on 1/31/12, 1:50 AM

    Rtm made one that we're now testing.

    If you look at the numbers though, there were several times in the past when HN was slower than it is now.

  • by CommentTo on 1/31/12, 2:26 AM

    Yeah... It is somewhat slow. And for some question, I was trying to comment, but it just wouldn't let me for some reason. It just kept me redirecting to some "/r" page. I logged-out, logged back in, but still had the same problem. But it worked after someone else had made a comment.

  • by bane on 1/31/12, 2:58 AM

    It seems to be faster than reddit if that means anything.

  • by electrichead on 1/31/12, 3:57 AM

    HN needs a pub sub mechanism so I don't need to rely on RSS any more.

  • by nathan_f77 on 1/31/12, 2:38 AM

    I'm not sure if it is already, but I think it would be pretty great if HN was open source.

    The front-end could do with a bit of a facelift, too.

    And hey, I've said it before, but we could just switch to Reddit's codebase. Or even operate like http://www.thecutelist.com/, which just points to a modified http://www.reddit.com/r/aww

    http://news.ycombinator.com/ could point to http://www.reddit.com/r/hacker_news, for example.