As a temporary experiment I am going to take items out of the sidebar and see if NMK loads faster.
As it generally loads fast for me, I have no way of testing the results. I would appreciate it if those who see any change could take a minute to add a comment to let me know. If I get any feedback, I may try restoring one or two items at a time to see if there is a particular culprit.
Those of you relying on news readers to read NMK — as I recommend to all who frequent the same web sites often — shouldn’t see any changes.
The problems with Twitter did make NMK slow this morning. I am trying to solve the longer-term problem that I had not been aware existed until yesterday.
You’re still loading pretty slowly for me.
I can’t speak for everyone else, but as far as I’m concerned, you really shouldn’t break your neck over it. I can wait for your site to load. I’ll wager no one else minds, which is likely why no one has ever mentioned it.
Go find some twisty roads and drive fast for a while and then have some Bar-B-Q!
You spend your whole day working on weblog load time and I’m gonna send someone over there to smack you around.
Still pretty slow for me too, but not so slow that it bugs me. Just take about a second longer than it used to. Noticeable, but not troubling.
I second what Elise said!
Nevermind then.
The only time I really notice is on my BlackBerry. Your site takes about 3X as long as Dooce (another common site for me).
This is the first time I’ve used your new commenting process. I’ll be interested to see how that works on my phone also.
Emily’s post ran into the next headline. But you probably see that. Or maybe not.
And my comment above ran all the way through the following post.
Well now I’m getting reports of NMK being slow (or messy) from all over the place.
I have other things to do today, and I’m not sure where to begin or what to do anyway, so please just hang in there.
Once again though, I do urge you to use an RSS reader for web sites that you check daily (or more often). I know some want to go to the actual web site, but for those that just want the new stuff in simple fast loading form, a reader is an excellent tool.
Two free desktop readers are FeedDemon (Windows) and NetNewsWire (Mac) from NewsGator. FeedDemon and NetNewsWire now use Google Reader to sync between your computers.
One reader told me the site is loading faster since I skimmed out some of the features (like comment editing). Anyone else notice a difference?