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Cake day: July 20th, 2023

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  • I don’t know if this is the right place to air this concern, but responsiveness on this instance seems extremely variable IME. Sometimes it’s OK, sometimes it’s molasses, sometimes I can’t even log in, and sometimes I get the message that the site is down.

    I’m convinced that site responsiveness is one of the limiting factors on community growth, and thus one of the reasons why the community has not grown.

    Is the instance running on a Raspberry Pi with an SD card, or some similar microcomputer? Would it be possible to crowd fund a more suitable hardware platform?

    Edit to add: When I watched the spinner, while the site tried to post this message, I found myself hurrying to copy-paste the text and save it locally, in case the site decided to die on me.

    This kind of uncertainty can cause even the most fervent user to quickly lose interest in using even the best of sites. Please understand that this is a massive problem for the site.