u/Natural-Plantain-893

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Genuine question: is everyone here cool with any click/operation in Notion taking 3-5 tedious seconds?

Lately it seems like anything that I do in Notion that requires an http request to get a result will take at least this long.

Operations that are still somewhat fast:
- typing text onto a page
- adding a page to a database view via the plus sign
- creating new blocks manually on a page

Options that take 3-5 seconds (or sometimes more)
- button automations. Even simple ones that only create a page in a database and open the page. Even if the database is simple and has under 10 fields. Even if none of the 10 fields are formula fields.
- navigating from one page to another page, especially if that contains a database view

I’ve tried clearing cache. Reinstalling the windows desktop app. Tried using browser web app. The same slowness occurs whether I’m at home, at work, during peak hours or in the evenings. If it requires an api call, it takes 3-5 seconds. It makes me think that this is an amount of time people find acceptable so I’m starting to be genuinely curious whether I have unrealistic standards for software performance.

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I’ve provided a Wikipedia article for comparison. An app funded entirely by donations is beating a multi billion dollar enterprise. Why does the title and icon take up 40 percent of the screen? Why is it double spaced like my phoned-in middle school research papers? It has to be intentional.

u/Natural-Plantain-893 — 23 days ago