Slow. Sluggish. Like molasses. - Steven Perez from IM

Slow to load? Slow to import your services? Please elaborate. I'm sorry that it is unusable for you but this is the first report I've heard - Benjamin Golub

All of the above. Slow when posting comments, slow when posting anything from the main feed, slow when using the bookmarklet. Yesterday, it was pretty slow. Today, not as much, but there are still moments when the lag is pronounced. - Steven Perez from IM

We will look into it. What browser are you using? - Benjamin Golub

I used Firefox, Opera and Midori on Ubuntu. - Steven Perez from IM

I've been getting the same thing on Firefox on a Mac. Just these moments of weird lagginess where stories sit on top of other stories and other odd laggy bugs. - Andrew

I don't think so, Pea. Penguin has been having the same problems since the new IU went live, and she doesn't follow near the number of people I do. - Steven Perez from IM

I'm following something like 1400 people, using Chrome, have it permapaused and not noticing much if any lags. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Obviously, I am not an example of the problems that Steven and others are seeing...doesn't negate their experiences either. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

Hmmm, so it could be a problem with the real-time, since most of my lists are RT. I keep the main feed paused, though; too much noise there. - Steven Perez from IM

i'm not paused, running chrome and things are queuing up for me. - BEX

I'm using chrome, follow over 2,000, stay in main feed, no pause, and haven't seen a problem. But I might not be awake. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I can't wait til Chrome comes out for Linux. :( - Steven Perez from IM

Just ordered more ram for my old lappie to run Linux faster.... - Ian May

Chrome on Linux should be nice. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I've been having trouble since last weekend. I'm using Safari, and pretty much always have my home feed paused. The problems I've noticed have mostly been that it takes a while for my likes and comments to go through, and that when I click on "x more comments" or "x similar entries" it takes a while for them to expand. Sometimes it takes so long that I give up and open a new tab then come back after a minute to see if things have gone through. Sometimes it runs just fine, though. - Lola Bean (Penguin)

Has anyone else had the weird thing where your mouse crosses over a user's pic and then the feed updates but you are left with that persons profile info sitting in the middle of the page? I wish I could describe this weirdness more succinctly but I just don't know how. - Andrew

Sometimes I do. I just refresh the page and it goes away. - Steven Perez

Yes, Andrew, I have. - MiniMage

All the time Andrew - really sucks. Sometimes the profiles jumps to the left corner of my browser window. - LPH™ and his dog P™

Yes, and? FF is in flux, getting updated under the hood all the time. We don't know, nor should we be told either in advance or later what each system update brings with it or takes away. Nor the extent of the database that needs refreshing. If it is momentarily unusable, do something else. Otherwise you are indirectly making an unreasonable request for 100% availability 100% of the time. - ianf ⌘

I should think that the developers would want to know when things go wrong on their site, ianf. - Steven Perez

I'm on Safari on the Mac, and I've been having a lot of problems with the links: instead of expanding the comments or letting me post a comment, it just pops me to the top of the page. I guess the Javascript isn't loading very quickly for some reason. - Victor Ganata

I use Chrome and everything seems to be peachy, But I'm new to FF. - Brent - Yes I am

Yeah, bookmarklet has been acting funny, won't let you add a photo/link to a specific group or room when you create one, just to your home feed, and I tried Safari, Firefox and Camino. - Mo Hall

Steven, it pays to learn how to diagnose slow, and, besides, don't you think they constantly measure throughput to sample sites? It's Standard Operating Procedure is all serious development cases, and FF is anything if not serious. There's a fine line between "reporting" and "undue panic"... why cross it only because you're a part of the Instant Orgasm generation? - ianf ⌘

Can't say I've experienced any pokiness. - Matthew

"Undue panic". Hmmm. Right. Because waiting to report a problem until 24 hours later is "undue panic". - Steven Perez from IM

And another thing, ianf: it's not my job to diagnose a problem. I merely report the problem. - Steven Perez

The problem is in your head, undue expectations. RTFM http://friendfeed.com/about... - ianf ⌘

ianf, did I take a dump in your cereal at some point in the past? I reported a problem. Benjamin asked questions. He and the others are now assessing the issue. What's your beef? - Steven Perez

Check yourself, ianf. Pointing Perez to the TOS and using RTFM is quite insulting. Troll much? - Richard Walker

It's not like you or I or anyone else here is connected umbilically to FF's server in any direct fashion. We go through countless switches, relays, backbones, the lot. I thought that much was understood and accepted. There are a number of places along the route of each IPacket, where a temporary glitch could be responsible for limited delays. I, too, have experienced them intermittently, and then the deliveries (and I am on a slow line) resumed as expected. But did I complain? Calling FF unusable because it didn't respond for a while is indefensible in my book. @Richard, need you ask? Welcome to http://friendfeed.com/ianf - ianf ⌘

So, you don't like the way I said what I said, in other words. Good to know. I'll try to soften the blow for you in the future, ianf. - Steven Perez from IM

Steven, no offense intended. Perhaps I was too quick on the verbal draw, but look at my first comment <http://friendfeed.com/friendf...>, all cautionary voice of reason, before the issue escalated out of proportion. - ianf ⌘

I've had some slowdown. This morning at about 9:00AM GMT and for long periods over the last 2-3 days at about 4:30PM onwards. :-( I'm using Chrome (latest dev) on Windows Vista. Today's slowdown occurred a little after loading up my machine and I didn't experience any of slowdown on other sites or services. I think the slowdown lasted about 30mins-ish and it was fine when I first logged in an hour before. Previous days it's been on/off for 1-3 hours in the afternoon. #betakoltag-bug - Kol Tregaskes

Yeah, now I too am noticing slow down sporadically. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

'cause the genie has been let out of the bottle! - ianf ⌘

Steven: just wanted to update you. I believe I've found the issue and we will be pushing a fix soon. - Benjamin Golub

Thanks, Benjamin. :) - Steven Perez from IM

over to you ianf - David HC Soul