[Site Update] Behind the scenes data-layer and caching improvements
post by habryka (habryka4) · 2019-08-07T00:49:29.721Z · LW · GW · 3 commentsWe just pushed a major behind the scenes update we've been working on for a while. This was primarily about reducing technical debt and upgrading a bunch of our outdated dependencies, so you shouldn't see much happening on your side besides some small performance improvements and a general reduction in weird data-loading jankiness.
This was however a pretty big refactor for our codebase, making this a very high risk update. We've spent a lot of time testing things, but please let us know if you notice anything broken or weird in the next few days.
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comment by Dagon · 2019-08-07T22:25:59.547Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Congrats on continuing to make improvements! Unfortunately, this one seems like a performance regression - it's taking a long time to expand comments when I click a green count on the /daily page, and the notifications list seemed to be slower as well. Loading post pages (I ctrl-click to open in new tab very often) has always been a bit slow (2-5 seconds) and seems worse now (I just timed one at 7 seconds).
Replies from: habryka4↑ comment by habryka (habryka4) · 2019-08-07T22:34:50.262Z · LW(p) · GW(p)
Huh, weird. I will look into it. Just to check, by the green comment thing do you mean the following interaction? (which takes less than a second for me as you can see)
http://www.giphy.com/gifs/hoy4FbckKeEWCAUk5r
Post-pages also take less than a second for me to load (initially, though there is some JS initialization afterwards), so that's also confusing:
http://www.giphy.com/gifs/lStCmWRImaotNqIFoo
Might be browser specific, or something else weird going on.
Replies from: Dagon