cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32411514
Just hopped in to check and it looks like we’re effectively DDoSing the Petition site by refreshing.
You can either join the watch party on the official discord, or use some other tracker website to see the numbers get updated to help alleviate the traffic so that more people can sign.
We have the same mechanism of citizen’s initiatives here in Finland and many of the initiatives get a big boost early and just before closing. See here for an example https://www.kansalaisaloite.fi/fi/aloite/11377