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Is there anything I can do to speed up the 'Following' page?
Occasionally mark everything read (link is bottom right on the home page).
The following page is a beast to calculate and does take a moment to perform the query, almost 1 second or so.
However if you mark everything read, it can do the same query in half the time.
The key is understanding how we store and calculate this stuff... if you mark everything read we store a single value, then over time we store a value for every thing that you visit and also track the time of all things that you are following that have had updates. We end up havin to crunch tens of thousands of pieces of information, just to be able to show the word "New" next to things.
If you mark everything as read occasionally you greatly reduce the number of things we're crunching when we make that page.
Marking everything as read only marks forums and their content as read... not private messages. So if you've caught up on reading... mark everything read.
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Is there anything I can do to speed up the 'Following' page? It loads much slower than all the others on both laptop and phone. I'm using Safari on both, generally.
Don't really mind if there isn't, but wouldn't want to be the sucker waiting while everyone else enjoys superfast updates to the day's important news.