I saw the title, misunderstood the nature of the delay, and thought “oh are you developing a SPA framework?” (no I’m not disparaging SPAs or their frameworks; this is a reference to, IIRC, SolidJS creator’s reasonable point that HN clones make for poor SPA performance demos because HN will always be faster).
Anyway, I was very confused when the page loaded almost instantly, but thankfully the About page does too :)
HN clones aren't always slower than real HN! Maybe I'm cheating a bit, but I'm developing a HN client that is a offline-first desktop client, and it's way faster than official HN can ever be, as accessing local disk is most certainly faster than accessing network resources :) But again, I'm cheating a bit.
Edit: Actually, now that I have read the about page for slowhn, it's literally a clone of hckrnews with some features stripped out and some intentional "rate limiting" to slow down how quickly new stories appear.
I like it a lot. Two things: it'd be great to be able to sort by comments / points, and you have a broken link - click about and then about again (suggest this link should actually change to "home" when you're on the about page).
“SlowHN is a clone of hckrnews.com because I wanted to stop compulsively checking the website every hour. This shows the top stories from yesterday, and only updates once per day like a newspaper.”
Anyway, I was very confused when the page loaded almost instantly, but thankfully the About page does too :)