# Metadata loading suddenly \*very\* slow

**URL:** <https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/metadata-loading-suddenly-very-slow/31286>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Tags:** uploader\
**Created:** [April 23, 2022, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/metadata-loading-suddenly-very-slow/31286 "2022-04-23T22:39:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![pisum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/91b2a8/32.png) [@pisum](https://forum.inaturalist.org/u/pisum)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2024, 2:31am UTC](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/metadata-loading-suddenly-very-slow/31286/18 "2024-05-22T02:31:13Z")

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> [@tiwane](#):
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> this existing topic, which your issue fits in with

it looks like this and similar threads reporting long upload times on the web upload screen (ex. [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/loading-metadata-taking-4-6-minutes-for-one-picture-size-3-8-mb/51382](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/loading-metadata-taking-4-6-minutes-for-one-picture-size-3-8-mb/51382)) are basically the successors to threads reporting photos failing to load (ex. [https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/pictures-upload-failing-when-creating-a-new-observation-via-web-browser/34497](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/pictures-upload-failing-when-creating-a-new-observation-via-web-browser/34497)) since the functionality to retry photo uploads [was implemented](https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/retry-uploads-on-the-browser-uploader/34628/19) last year.

for folks looking for possible solutions to the problems, it may be worth looking at those other threads, and probably the older pre-retry threads should be closed if the discussion for these kinds of problems is going to be continued on this thread.

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