Real engineer reacts to Notion speed issues

Wondering if Notion will improve? Why is this so hard? I'm going to explain it in human terms, no tech background required.

## Table of Contents

00:00 Introducion
00:59 Notion Frontend
01:44 Notion Backend
03:09 Things I'm skipping
04:12 Prepare for bottlenecks?
05:40 What's Notion Dealing with?
06:54 How to fix?
07:45 Expectations
08:15 Will there be future problems?

## Contact

## Licenses / Credits

Music - Storyblocks
Stock Footage - Storyblocks
Father in Law - A very Harold & Kumar Christmas
The one and only Jeff Goldblum - Jurassic Park
Glados - Portal Series
Memes - Hide the pain Harold, Survivor Council Vote
Couple of animated gifs straight from Giphy

[cradixus]

Fantastic video! I found this because I’m new to Notion and LOVE it… but the slowness is really starting to get to me. After watching this video which sounded like PRESENT day, I had hope… until I saw you made this 3 years ago. LOL. I’d love to see an update (please link if you have one) one if they ever did these things and what you presently think about the speed issues. Thank you!!

[toolsontech]

How many edits do you want? Yes!
Maybe went overboard a little, but it was great fun talking tech and keeping it simple.

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Any other apps you guys want me to look at?

[lighterpack]

As someone who is about the have a similar position as you with putting out fires when something hits the fan no matter the timing, I applaud your explanation for explaining big picture problem Notion may be facing now and into the future. I appreciate how your points can apply to any other software company scaling and how they are trying to find the balance of continue to attract users while mitigating big bottlenecks from rearing its ugly head. I'll look to give Notion a try and build form ground up due to this video. Thanks!

[jdcv]

Notion's web browser won't load again for me today. Tried cleaning my history and cache and still nothing. At least I could access the desktop and mobile apps. I was able to use the browser version several weeks ago. But it won't load again since a couple of days already.

[DavidMalan]

That intro!!! Amazing video Bas! Had me laughing and learning! So good!

[milesmatic]

Nice video on Notion, helped me staying productive :)

[Admin-bxvm]

Great video!! I noticed since this year that notion has gotten a lot faster for me, but it’s definitely slow in loading templates

[twisbrogan]

So, with this approach, do you think they'll be able to avoid the page (or block) duplication errors that sometimes plagues Evernote?

[bigpumpsea]

Thanks, I am about to give up on notion. It's gotten too slow to be functional for me.

[chedrickmaghanoy]

Make notion software hard drive computation not iust in cloud so we can edit while offline

[DannyHatcherTech]

Nice! Was that a wig going on in there 🤨

[HowPortal]

poor content. you are probably not that technical.