Is it just me or is devrant a little bit slow to load rants. If so why is that? What should be done to make it better?

I don't know but I like the loading part in devrant. It's like the heartbeat.

Is it just you .

it's not just you, I took like a week break from devRant and when I came back I immediately noticed it is slower, was thinking of posting too about it.
@dfox any new servers incoming? :D
Yes, I know, they don't come free.

Hmmm, seems ok right now for me.

You think yours is slow? My internet connection is 128kb/s

Damn AT&T.....

We're always trying to optimize the speed of the app and it's possible there has been some increased latency due to growth.

However, there are some different things to look at here. The main place we can add servers is on our database layer that has by far the highest load of any of our components but it's also easiest for us to optimize at this stage.

One thing to keep in mind is we serve all of our traffic from one geo location (New Jersey). So if you're on the other side of the world, the unfortunate reality is the app isn't going to be blazing fast. Though that wouldn't really explain why it seems to have gotten slower for you, unless you're using it from a diff location.

One thing I would ask from those who have been noticing speed issues, when you notice them, please do to our homepage, https://www.devrant.io/ and see how fast it loads. The homepage doesn't hit the DB, so if that's slow, it most likely indicates geographic issues. If it's fast, it points to some DB slow-down.