Would it help if we deleted all the political threads? Just asking for a friend. 
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Hmm.. like some others, I’ve been closing and re-opening the site. Happens on my phone and on my PC so I would suspect the problem (if there is one) is with the Site/whatever rather than my phone/PC.
Same problems here.
I’ll take a look and report back. Thanks all and bonne dimanche!
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Murky buckets Cat. Hope it’s not too much hassle.
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Still on a ‘go slow’ for me earlier this evening but seems OK now that it’s just us ‘night owls’ here at 01.20hrs. Perhaps it is something to do with too many users at the same time ?
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But if they are causing the problem it’s because they are getting the most hits 
Delete everything else and the problem will disappear.
On a more serious note, this platform just does not work with Safari on IOS.
Just testing… doesn’t work with Firefox either.
Works ok using Firefox on my phone
It’s been unusable several times today on the phone, seems OK now on computer with Brave browser.
Is it IOS? I don’t use on my phone but it’s very tricky on my iPad mini. Maybe it’s just a mini problem.
Nope, it can be very temperamental on my iPad, ( not a mini). It’s only happened recently, used to have no problems.
I don’t think it’s an OS issue, I’m on Android on the phone. I DO wonder if there’s mobile and conventional versions of the site (I’m sure there are) and that might be a part of the problem, if the mobile version gets bogged down with traffic but the std version doesn’t.
Correction - it was down just now on both phone and computer at exactly the same time.
Android
I think it might be the screen size it struggles with. But this is the screen size we like.
After generations of full sized iPads my wife and I moved to minis five years ago. They are a great bridge between a too small iPhone screen and using the laptop.
I highly recommend them and there’s a new one (after a long delay) in the offing.
I honestly never had a problem until recently, I don’t know if it’s the site or iOS upgrades, that seem to happen almost weekly, ( a bit of exaggeration but feels like it).
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Wonder if there’s been a massive increase in AI trawlers. That can load a site, or a provider’s systems such as Discourse? heavily
Maybe we need to be assigned shifts… 
Certainly there has been a significant increase in anonymous visitors in September compared with previous months.
This site is definitely suffering from latency on iOS and all the web browsers I use on a pc, it’s getting annoying and worse, can someone please look into this.