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Ask HN: Does Reddit site performance seem to be getting worse?

3 points| telesoft | 3 years ago

Hope it's appropriate to discuss here, but I apologize if it's not.

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.

2 comments

LinuxBender|3 years ago

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...

robaye|3 years ago

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/