The site has been having difficulties loading, for me, for days, but tonight it went down for hours… Cloudflare said “Internal Server Error”, but even earlier in the day I was getting 500 Errors…
NNN seemed to go down as well…
Timing is super, super suss.
Or was that on my end?? Seems unlikely, given both my phone AND both computer browsers I use couldn’t load it, and had the same error…
Client side rendering is a big one. That's possibly why the site seems slower, although it's not a complaint which we have heard a lot.
Rendering the site on the client side (consuming the API) rather than serving up the complete HTML for every pageload is way better for us.
There's really a million different benefits to the newer stack.
Is the slowness that you're referring to when browsing on a desktop device or mobile? I do agree that the site is slow on mobile, but we have our mobile site for that.