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But why is HN so slow? Pages take like 30+ seconds to load for me (German vantage point, other sites are fine). Does it timeout on some Google dependency or try to use a Google submarine cable or something? Or is everyone just posting to HN about it?
At times like this I am thankful of running a Google takeout periodically. Not because I use it as a live failover for Google services, but because these outages are good reminders of the mortality of online services.
I’m seeing poor internet performance overall, even accessing HN...too many relying on Google DNS maybe? Even ISPs?
Just checked https://www.google.com/appsstatus all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down) edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is
https://downdetector.com/ is remarkably good at catching this too. But funnily enough, a lot of the votes come from traffic that searches for "is ____ down?" on Google. XD
It's also weird the page title with "Error 500 (Server Error)!!1" - Why !!1 at the end of it?
Secret status code to differentiate types or server errors?
A joke?