Is it just me or are things slower (Edge)

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Linwood Ferguson avatar
Linwood Ferguson avatar

This is quite likely just me or my setup, but thought I would mention it in case others are seeing it.

I normally use Edge. Lately (week, maybe more) Astrobin has been VERY slow for me. I switched to Firefox and then Chrome and it seemed fine. I have 1g fiber internet that I monitor so it’s not the internet per se, though it could be related to a regional CDN I guess (I’m in North Carolina US).

I also have gotten this message which is a bit baffling — it appears, sits there for a minute or three, then disappears. This message was actually on Firefox.

It’s easy enough to use a different browser, but since I was seeing the issue only on Astrobin I thought I would mention it in case it turns out to be not just me.

But it’s probably just me. I was saying bad stuff about Microsoft lately and they finally caught up with me. 😱

Linwood

PS. Again, the below is from Firefox in a session that’s working perfectly, in fact it is the screen in which I’m typing this. It’s gone now, it just appeared for a while and vanished. I never saw that on Edge which right now is sitting there with a blank screen after going to explore, groups — I have the black banner at the top and bottom and grey in the rest except a grey-on-black build GUID.

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Salvatore Iovene avatar
Salvatore Iovene avatar

Hi Linwood,

metrics at my disposal indicate that the performance has not degraded recently (except that there was an issue with a deployment a few hours ago which caused a bunch of error 502s).

The message in your screenshot is due to throttling, thanks for reporting! Guess I'll have to increase the limits. I can see that that one was while writing this forum post, so it's probably about tag/title suggestions.

Please let me know if you see it in other contests, and then tell me what you were doing, so I can figure out what needs raising.

I can check logs anyway, actually, so I'll that too :)

Thanks!

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Salvatore Iovene avatar
Salvatore Iovene avatar

Btw, if it's being slow in Edge only, try clearing the browser's cache! (Not the cookies, as it would log you out, just the cache.)

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Linwood Ferguson avatar
Linwood Ferguson avatar

Salvatore Iovene · Sep 6, 2025, 08:44 PM

The message in your screenshot is due to throttling, thanks for reporting! Guess I'll have to increase the limits. I can see that that one was while writing this forum post, so it's probably about tag/title suggestions.

If I recall (and I’m not certain I did) I was just typing in the body of the text. But not sure. Haven’t seen it since.

I wonder if it’s because of the hung session on Chrome coming from a different browser same IP. I tried a few times to get to the same group.

But yes, clearing the cache will fix the won’t-appear-at-all issue. I’m not sure that was the cause of the very-slow issue. Though once I cleaned the cache it was no longer slow either.

Regardless, it’s easy enough to work around in either direction; just a FWIW comment in case I was not the only one.

Thanks.

Linwood