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Random: Why is HN so insanely, painfully slow to load lately?

• Lockyy 14y ago
  Potentially because you got down-voted a tonne and are on the verge of being hell-banned. Test this by logging out and see if it loads quickly again. If so, then yeah, you're being artificially slowed down. Edit: I actually just noticed it was slow for me too, logged out and it was still slow. No idea then.
  • eagsalazar 14y ago
    lol. Well good theory otherwise! Edit: Actually I just realized your theory never really made any sense. What site throttles bandwidth just to you when you get downvoted? Nutty theory actually.
    • Lockyy 14y ago
      It's not nutty, it's what hacker news does. After getting down-voted a certain amount you get hell-banned. Your posts are still posted, except only people with "show dead" enabled see them. Before that however you just get throttled and the site loads more slowly.
    • DanBC 14y ago
      I have no idea if this is what is happening to you, but see SlowBan on this page: (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-hellban.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/06/suspension-ban-or-h...)