On: Is there a wider internet outage today?

[dredmorbius]

NB, someone was commenting a week ago that HN was observed as faster when logged in, not out:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36117794>

[dang → dredmorbius]

Like any typical developer, my response is "that shouldn't be happening".

If it is happening, that would be most interesting - but we'd need to test to be sure.

[dredmorbius → dang]

Yeah, that's my sense as well.

Speculation was that it might have been anti-bot countermeasures.

I've ... encountered those a few times recently doing my HN front-page research. Though not presenting as latency.