Does anyone also have those long loding times?

My internet connection is great and every other website or app (insta, tiktok for example) works properly and i can scroll theough without loading times, but for a few weeks now i have long loading times for videos and pictures. Until last year i had no issues with videos playing instantly because they loaded fast enough but i now have to wait sometimes 20sec for a 720x1080 5sec vid to load enough to play it without loading in the middle. Im using Samsung Browser btw (with adblockers deactivated for this site)

yeah, it has happened to me a couple of times already recently

It's fine for me only the notifications take about 30 seconds to load

Yes, they really need a CDN but probably too expensive.

This site is run by a single person on their own hardware, as a service to the community. A CDN could address some of the issues, but may result in unintended consequences, though that’s a discussion for the future.

One thing that can slow down the site is if people are trying to crawl the site, to download images. There is some protection from abuse, but it isn’t foolproof.