I stopped visiting hexbear.net because it is so slow to load. Today i timed it, it took 1 minute 36 second to load the main page. My connection is 24 Mbps, Reddit for example takes less than 1 second to load the main page. Is this a problem on my end? Or is the site slow for other people?
what browser/OS? rough idea of what hardware? is the connection actually consistently 24?
I'm out and about on a connection that tests at 16/6 mbps down/up, and the page loads muuuuuch faster than that, 2-5 seconds depending on how you measure, even with caching disabled. But I am on a relatively speedy linux laptop running firefox. So it's more likely the webapp using too much resources, or all the image loads clogging things up, than the pure speed of your connection.
It definitely could use work to run faster, but your experience is abnormal. Maybe try an alternative frontend? https://diethex.net/ was developed by an amazing comrade here, but there are other frontends and mobile apps you could potentially use that actually allow you to sign in and participate as well
The reasons it's slow are many. Reddit isn't just sitting on a computer somewhere in langley, it's an interconnected web of many many servers all doing different things, and other company's servers distributed into local datacenters all over the world caching their content so you can load it that much faster from the one nearest to you instead of going roundtrip to langley and back. Hexbear has none of that, though does appear to have multiple servers for things like cytube, etc. It's also running much less mature/optimized software frankly, and the javascript frontend/UI isn't particularly speedy because of some design decisions as well.
good points, thanks for the informative reply. i'm on a macbook air that's a few years old, on chrome (which i know sucks, i guess i'm just used to it). connection is pretty reliably around 24/10 down/up every time i've run a test. diethex seems like a good solution.
huh, I wouldn't expect that bad of perf from a macbook that isn't like ancient, but idk. If you don't love diethex there's mlmym which is a clone of old reddit. Not sure I'd trust logging in through it necessarily but: https://o.opnxng.com/hexbear.net/
it was slow the last couple days for me too, but it's OK right now
Is that constant? Definitely intermittently, like 5% of the time, Hexbear is very slow. But otherwise it's just as fast.
it's not constant, sometimes it's in the 10-20 second range to load.
Yeahh the site is often really slow for me too. I think it's just the web ui, the API seems pretty fast so if you use a different client you might have better luck
You could also try https://diethex.net
