Hacker News too slow? Is it time for HN to switch to a different platform?

Rtm made one that we're now testing.<p>If you look at the numbers though, there were several times in the past when HN was slower than it is now.

Yeah... It is somewhat slow. And for some question, I was trying to comment, but it just wouldn't let me for some reason. It just kept me redirecting to some "/r" page. I logged-out, logged back in, but still had the same problem. But it worked after someone else had made a comment.

It seems to be faster than reddit if that means anything.

HN needs a pub sub mechanism so I don't need to rely on RSS any more.

I'm not sure if it is already, but I think it would be pretty great if HN was open source.<p>The front-end could do with a bit of a facelift, too.<p>And hey, I've said it before, but we could just switch to Reddit's codebase. Or even operate like <a href="http://www.thecutelist.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.thecutelist.com/</a>, which just points to a modified <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/aww" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/aww</a><p><a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/</a> could point to <a href="http://www.reddit.com/r/hacker_news" rel="nofollow">http://www.reddit.com/r/hacker_news</a>, for example.