Like the concept, but performance is a showstopper

Would like to throw my vote to prioritizing performance. Right now, performance is my biggest pain point in Coda - it adds considerable friction to routine tasks and has made me seriously consider moving to regular spreadsheets (or Notion). This applies to Coda on every device, though it’s especially irritating on mobile (both iPhone and Android).

E.g. if I want to add a task to my task management system, I need to open the Coda app, press login (every time), it crashes (every time), then I reopen the app to reach my Coda homepage after 5ish seconds of loading. I then click my task management doc and wait another 10 seconds for it to load, then the specific page I need (+5 seconds), then the plus button to add a row (+5 seconds), then it’s on to laggy text input. Besides the auth issue (Android only), the experience is mirrored on both my iPhone XR & OnePlus 3.

I’ve gone as far as to create multiple Google/Typeforms purely for personal use w/Zapier so I can avoid inputting data into Coda on my phone.

I really love Coda and want to see it succeed as a product & company, but I’m using it too actively to overlook this kinda thing forever. I’ve heard similar sentiments from some other Coda users I know. Are any big performance improvements on the horizon, especially mobile?

(I’m happy to share my docs & discuss what I can do on my end to improve performance, but this performance thing is an issue even with low volume docs (fewer than 200 rows), though it certainly gets worse as complexity rises (I have some docs with 100+ sections & low individual complexity))

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