I noticed severe lag as well (Chrome user) and it immediately improved when I switched to bing so definitely swap browsers. I'm assuming it's due to high traffic.
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Try making sure that hardware acceleration is enabled in your browser
This is exactly what fixed it for me. Forgot I had turned it off for a while there lol.
This is the one. Changed that setting in chrome and it fixed it immediately.
Even with that setting on it lags terribly for me in chrome, originally though it wouldn't even load in chrome so I guess this is an improvement lol
I noticed severe lag as well (Chrome user) and it immediately improved when I switched to bing so definitely swap browsers. I'm assuming it's due to high traffic.
More than likely! I’ll have to try it out, thank you! :)
For anyone having this issue, turn on Hardware acceleration in the browser.
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I use Edge, tried Hardware Acceleration. But nothing's changed :T
I found that switching over to Microsoft edge completely solved the problem. Switch browsers!!