Hi everyone. Phenomenal job with the app, it’s really looking like it could replace reddit with no trouble.
I’m getting timeout issues though, every time I upvote something. I’m sure it’s nothing but I wanted to give you the heads-up.
One more suggestion is to make it easier to find communities on here! Then it’ll be perfect.
Thanks again :)
Timeouts might be from the server struggling since the reddit blackout is bringing in a lot of users at the same time right now. I’d wait a few days and see if the issue disappears or maybe a second account on a lesser known instance might help.
I’ve noticed (although on the .ml instance) that even whenever GET requests go through fine (albeit a bit slow) POST requests don’t actually return a response. After 60 seconds they will timeout, even if the operation actually does complete successfully. This happens mainly on voting and making comments from what I see.
That’s pretty common. Database reads are much lighter operations than writes, and you can cache responses to heavily alleviate the strain of those requests.
There’s no real way to get around database writes though. Each one of those has to go through the DB eventually. You can do things to mitigate it like putting the messages in a queue to be bul-inserted in batches, but it’s much harder to optimize write performance than it is to optimize reads.
Oh absolutely. I would expect the response to take longer. But what I’m saying is that even once the operation is complete, the server will not return a response to you. You can simply refresh to see that your request did go through, but you will still be waiting for a response.
I seem to be getting them about 30 seconds after each interaction, such as upvoting or clicking on a thread to load comments.