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Why Devto is so slow from China?

chenge on October 20, 2018

Is it stable and quick? Or is it slow only from China?

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jeikabu • Edited

It's only slow in China (I'm in Shanghai). Dev.to is using something that disagrees with the GFW. I am not a web developer otherwise I might attempt a PR to fix it. As a work-around it works best if you visit dev.to from a country outside of China. ;)

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Michael

I don't think the GFW accepts PRs.

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jeikabu • Edited

Someday... someday....

Incidentally, Xijinping is in Shanghai the beginning of November. If I run into him at KFC I'll share my tips for firewall configuration.

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Eljay-Adobe

Probably due to RFC 1149.

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chenge

It quick today, cool.

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David Wickes

It's unsurprising. With such a large surface area of technologies used to serve the site, it's almost inevitable that one of them isn't going to play well with the GFW.