@bonifartius

Is that something enabled in the client or the server?

@freemo

@Pat
i think it's selected via theme and the default qoto theme has it enabled
@freemo

@bonifartius

I don't see anything about "themes" in the profile or preferences setting on my client.

(I didn't go through every one cause it takes 20s to load on each click.)

@freemo

@bonifartius

Found it. Changed to Mastodon default Theme (dark)" and now the pages are loading quickly.

@freemo

@Pat nice :) i already had the screenshot prepared ;)

@freemo i think the instance ticker needs an update, cf. the issue i linked a few posts back. maybe just changing the domain works too.

@bonifartius

Yea that could be the issue.. ill look into it.

@Pat

@freemo

More data points...

- I pinged all the IP4 addresses resolved from qoto.org and lb.qoto.org and they'e in the 20's ms.

- Tried to load video.qoto.org and the page loads are intermittently slow, but I think that may be related to snatching the videos from the various peertube instances.

@bonifartius

@Pat

It is almost certainly the ticker's domain not resolving which gets you stuck on DNS resolution until it timesout.

@bonifartius

@freemo

What's that domain and I'll try a host lookup from here?

@bonifartius

@Pat

My guess it is the issue with the tickers, the domain is probably down so its stuck trying to resolve it. does the new theme have tickers?

@bonifartius

@jeffdean @freemo @Pat we can probably expect the #fediverse to suffer a lot of performance problems this month

@PhDMarie

did you try changing the theme?

@freemo

@Pat @freemo
Actual footage of my technical prowess.... but I will give it a go.

@PhDMarie

hahaha

Im reluctant to fix it in our code because its a long process and ill have to reverse it once/if the service comes back up... if you wait a few days it might resolve itself, if not ill eventually just axe it from the code.

@Pat

@freemo @Pat I did it! GREAT SUCCESS! It is moving much faster now. Thank you both!

@PhDMarie

🎉 🎉🎉🎉🎉 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

@Pat

@PhDMarie @Pat @freemo Quality potato rather than potato quality.

@PhDMarie

It appears it is related to the ticker being down (thats an external service). if you switch to a non-ticker theme it should be ok.

@Pat

@deegeese yes this is because the ticker service recently came down.. switching to a theme without a ticker will solve it.. im fixing it

@freemo I had switched to no-ticker, and when I re-enabled the default, the slowdown returned.

@deegeese yes, of course it would.. you have to keep teh no-ticker enabled. With the ticker down it is equivalent without the broken call.

@freemo Sorry, I misunderstood that you had taken the ticker out of 'QOTO Default' when you actually changed the default to no-ticker.