[TacticalCoder]

> HN user experience in EU is "meh"

It's not: it's super quick, the fastest website I check on a daily basis, by very far. If only all the web could be like this!

Which is user tekmol 's point: "Hacker News is one of the most responsive websites I know. And it is run on a single server somewhere in the USA. While I am in Europe."

HN is great in the EU. If most of the pageloading is just the roundtrip, you've already won, no matter if your users are on the same continent as your unique server or not.

[arghwhat]

I disagree, but that does not matter - even if you think it is fast somewhere in the EU, the fact still holds that your perceived loading time is in the ballpark of 2-3x longer than it would have been if hosted within the EU.

How you grade those experiences is subjective. Your "great" is likely my "meh", as physics dictate that we see similar results.

[zo1]

I'm on another hemisphere, diff continent (Africa) and closeish to the south pole. And even for me HN is very fast.