if ftx is actually lagging / front running shouldnt there be easily documented evidence via footprint or trade history etc etc, ? if so, why havent ppl posted ?
cat have "lagged" once in a while, sometimes got a worse fill, sometimes got a better fill, idk, are ppl coping or
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Is cat trading on some exclusive VIP ftx subdomain?
Frontrunning might be speculation, but there's no doubt about the lag/latency.
When i market order on ftx, I have enough time to brew some tea, take the dog for a walk, buy some groceries, and then my order gets filled.
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can you send me a video of the lag you're seeing? would be super useful.
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it's hard, form words alone, to debug--best guess is that it's browser lag but to figure out for sure we'll need to be able to line up e.g. orderbook state at the time the button was clicked
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We've come full circle to the your browser is not browser part again
It's not just the trading engine, just UI related stuff like loading wallet balances, chart updates, order updates, etc.
ideally the ftx stack becomes more browser compatible instead of chrome rewriting code
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hey guys sorry I'm trying to help here--I really do want the experience to be better, and sending an example of things happening would be super helpful for us debugging!
otherwise we'll just try to guess at what people are seeing.
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recommend this tweet + get someone who knows what dev tools is to open dev tools and just use the site for a bit + talk to this person
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Replying to @SBF_FTX @HsakaTrades and @CL207
The browser lags because the frontend makes an excessive amount of requests, many redundant or completely unnecessary. These bunch up if the browser gets blocked.
Charts are updated by repeatedly sending GET requests instead of having a WS channel.
twitter.com/PenguinsTradin
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not sure that it's possible to build an effective engineering culture by having the CEO debug via video on twitter. willing to talk to devs. other technical users with more volume probably also willing to talk to devs.
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I'm currently talking to devs too!
we feel pretty strongly that we know what's going on, but twitter is disagreeing--and so we'd love to see evidence if there's something else we're missing
either way we're starting to prioritize FTX browser rendering performance etc.
🤝 dm if you want me to help and know my machine specs
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