Bubble backend database incredibly slow to load

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I’ve noticed this on several apps over the last few days… the bubble backend database table viewer is loading extremely slowly and often not at all.

the only way to resolve it is to do a page refresh and then it’ll load a few tables again. incredibly frustrating since the front end loads faster than the backend - it’s faster for me to build a front end page, put a repeating group on it, map it and wait for the page to load then it is to view the table data in the backend.

clearly a bug. would appreciate a fix.

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I experienced this recently with a data type that stores huge amounts of JSON used to create CSVs. I added the field that stores the chunks of JSON in the table, and it pretty much crashed my app. Once I removed that field from the view, things sped up again.

Do you have any fields like this in your database that are visible in the tables and could be causing the issue?

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it’s not the front end that crashes it’s the backend table that just fails to fetch data

it happens on all the data types unless I do a refresh and I’ve had it happen on small apps with less than 5 data types and very basic tables, as well as big apps with complex datas

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Yes, plenty of timeouts, and search almost doesn’t work on large tables. (normal tables, not particularly heavy)

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Adding to this. Our database views are basically unusable right now. This should be of highest priority to the Bubble team!

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Search almost never works.

I also found that when it does work it’s not always 100% accurate.

I have several large apps and bubble is really struggling with them. Small simple apps are fine and fast to search etc - but big apps exhaust cache limits in browsers etc (usually why search doesn’t work, and I assume why tables don’t work)

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latest bug…

copy and paste now no longer works. whenever I try to paste it just holds the dropdown menu and doesn’t paste. the menu won’t close (you can still click items but nothing happens). only solution is page refresh.

copy paste was working fine a few hours ago lol
how can bubble be so temperamental?

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and the bubble issues just keep on coming lol

yet another issue I found today was that changes made to an app have not saved
I made changes. I tested those changes. I moved on to change other things. hours later I came back and happened to click the button where I added the workflow earlier… and nothing happened.
I checked the button logic and there is no workflow. I distinctly remember adding it, writing the toast and testing it.

I’m assuming it’s a caching issue again because the bubble editor constantly says it has saved the changes and never gave a disconnected error today

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As for the last issue (changes not being saved), do you have more than one Bubble editor tab/window open at the same time? When others in the forum said their changes weren’t saved, they found out later it was because they had more than one Bubble tab open. I’m curious if this is the same situation or not.

Everything you said sounds bad. Have you opened any tickets for these issues?

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@fede.bubble , @josh , @emmanuel

I notice that Bubble employees are eager to tell that something new has been released but almost never respond to issues.

To me, and I think a lot of users, it would be very positive when this would change.

@josh since you are a dad you can probably relate to the following story. You buy a bike for your child and your child is happy. You explain your child how it all works. Your last words are…enjoy! And off you go. Your child wonders what to do next. You are being called. No response. Nobody else responds. A day later, you are exited again and take you child to the garage again to fit a feature on the bike. Exiting feature you say and explain what to do with it. And off you go. Eventually, your child will ditch the bike. There is no connection, just painful moments.

The community at Bubble has been better than it is now in my 6 years of Bubbling. Many great Bubblers of the past, always here to help out, always here to build great plugins, always here to put in lots of hours to explain noobs how to do things. Are gone.

Bubble has more money than ever. But I think less money is needed when doing things a bit different. I will explain.

Support respons to tickets are slow and often of low quality.

Often many tickets having the same question.

Why not let all those Bubble employees join the forum and actively help here in stead of behind a wall of tickets?

Use something like typesense in combination with AI to quickly identify the same questions and issues, combine them, make a new forum post, notify the users in the old thread and spend an hour explaining in detail how to handle it.

I think it will be cheaper and most of all, 10x better support and connection to customers than any other Saas product. Which is the cheapest marketing you can buy!

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the idea of developing a bubble app with only 1 tab is extremely limiting. I have talked to bubble support before about all these issues and submitted many support tickets - which go no where (most are never even responded to lol). so now I decided to just publicly post about the issues instead - I’m hoping bringing the issues into a more public place will put more pressure to fix them… support tickets just get ignored and passed to juniors.

I’ve built dozens of bubble apps and I am a full time bubble dev working on the platform now for 5+ years. I’m well aware of the bugs and have workarounds for them, it’s just the number and frequency of having to work around the bugs is increasing not decreasing over time and I’m getting increasingly frustrated.

It’s embarrassing to have meetings with clients and just have to say “yeah that’s a known bug with bubble” or “sorry, that’s just bubble being bubble”.

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It is known to most with experience that in any company of any size there are in most cases not more than 10 to 20 people really making a difference.

Talk to customers every, single, day and help them is the best and most easy to implement management practice to keep on track and continue to build great products.

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