Maybe it was sort of having hiccups before and after. I went to programming.dev in the browser immediately after and it loaded.

The whole instance was down for a while today, I believe. I guess you just happened to try using the browser right when it went back up

The admin team are aware of it, and last time I asked it was due to some database queries for stats updating. The latest Lemmy version does claim to fix something similar, but I haven't confirmed with the team that its the fix.

I'll ask on discord if there is a plan to upgrade.

We get this a bit on my instance as well. Much less if you run two load balanced ui instances. The latest lemmy version says it fixes issues with certain blocking actions on rhe server, which I have high hopes for it fixing issues like this.

Looks like programming.dev is now a couple of versions out of date, bringing it up to date might help.

504 errors sees like a lot.

I'm experiencing the same both on the website and using Jerboa like @Scoopta mentioned.

Edit: Noticed that they're taking donations now (they weren't a few months ago). Decided to throw a few dollars a month to help out. I encourage everyone to do the same 🙂

New to this instance, but for me too it is comparatively sluggish since I started using it yesterday.

From time to time I experience extreme sluggishness and occasional timeouts in Jeroba so I don't believe it's only the website.