Over the course of the past 2 months, my team and I have been completely incapacitated by bubble’s inability to load the page preview, the editor, or both. Half of our time is wasted on waiting for the preview, if the editor isn’t timed out already. We have tried to load it on 3 different browsers, restarted the browser, restarted the internet connection to no avail. It has even begun to affect the functionality of the application as well, as data sometimes doesn’t load or certain workflows simply do not run.
The editor, as mentioned before, is also unable to load pages and reusable elements without needing to restart the browser or waiting for long periods of time. This is not to mention the frequent timeouts and additional waiting for the editor to reload or to begin saving again.
Everything else works fine, so its not an issue of a slow internet connection and it affects all 4 members of the team, so its also not limited to a device.
Is there something that can be done to fix this or are we simply doomed to working at a snail’s pace for the mistake of using this platform?
Any web based software is going to have additional overheads you’ll need to look into. These include browser, browser extensions, network (vpn, firewall, network permissions etc)
The first thing i will do to troubleshoot is to do a hard refresh. If the problem persists I’ll try a different browser. If that works I’ll disable extensions on my main browser. If that doesn’t work I’ll check my network (the networks I dev in I know have nothing blocking my work)
that’s why I use arc browser because it actively manages the browser cache (stops the crashing)
the downsides is that arc hard refreshes the browser tab fairly often because bubble bloats it up so quickly. certain actions in bubble are heavier than others and bloat the cache faster (searches, jumping around lots of pages/reuseables etc). big bubble apps also bloat and crash much more often than smaller apps.
Thanks for the reply. We’ve tried different browsers and such, but the preview is still loading extremely slowly. It’s odd that this has snowballed like this over time, it used to be much better.
What kind of computers are you using? How much memory do they have? Low RAM is often the main issue. Also, a weak internet connection can cause problems with Bubble, even if other websites work fine.
I used to run Bubble on a MacBook Air with 4GB of RAM. It was okay at first, but once my apps got larger, it started crashing. Bubble would sometimes push updates without optimizing memory usage, which made it worse. For a while, I reported it and they’d fix it, but eventually, I gave up and upgraded to a faster machine. Since then, it’s been much smoother. So yeah—computers with low memory really struggle now. Hope that helps!
I read these comments about crashes but haven’t experienced them. When at home I use a chromebook to work on my app and have never had a problem. I use all reusable elements and have a SPA.
I wonder if it’s the country you’re in?
I know this has to be frustrating for you. I’m just trying to understand why some have this problem.
Thank you for the reply, and yes to both questions, we do use reusable elements a fair bit and have a SPA. It’s mainly an issue that previewing the app requires us to keep 4 browsers open at all times, and wait to see if it loads anywhere. Otherwise, keeping the preview open on a single browser results in endless waiting unless you get lucky or restart the browser multiple times. The problem has progressively gotten worse. The waiting times and occurrences of timing out are worse than they were a week or 2 weeks ago.
Someone mentioned extensions. You can check to see if those might cause a problem by running your app in incognito mode and seeing if that changes anything.
Also, plugins could be a problem. Some as you know do a lot of API calls etc., or are outdated.
Hopefully, someone with more experience in Bubble can help you figure it out…or support can help.
