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January 28, 2021
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Publishing Library speed varies enormously

  • January 28, 2021
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I’m working on a library file and the speed at which the library gets published is random.

Sometimes pushing 20 changes is fast, at others pushing 2 takes >10min or fails. Publishing in the morning is fast enough, but as the day goes it becomes unworkable, which is a problem for our team as it’s not possible to push library updates.

I’m using the desktop app, but the same issue appears on the browser.

Opening the activity monitor, I can see the Figma (renderer) using one of my 8 CPUs at 100% but it never uses the other CPUs. Why is there no multi threading (hope that’s the correct term)?

What can make the publishing time so slow? What can I do to improve it? Is there a way to contact the @figma support directly?

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    Jeff_Young
    Jeff_Young
    October 31, 2022

    Yes, the time taken to publish a library (especially when you have to link through from foundations → components → pages can really slow you down.

    @David_Habibi Does the problem occur in both web browser and Figma app? If only web browser, I’d be inclined to use the app

      ZdenekCulik
      ZdenekCulik
      April 6, 2024

      Same issue here.
      Publishing icon library with /12000 take more than 15minutes.

      Number of total icon is 2000

      Figmate
      Junko3
      Figmate
      April 9, 2024

      Hello, thank you for bringing this to our attention! I understand that it can be frustrating when publishing takes some time.

      For large library files, publishing components in smaller batches rather than all at once may be beneficial in this situation.

      Additionally, if you are aware of components nested within other components, please consider publishing these first. If there are any large variant sets, please publish them separately before any components they may be nested in.

      If this doesn’t seem to help, we suggest to reach out to our support team to directly through this link: https://help.figma.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
      To assist our support team investigate, kindly provide the following information:

      • Please ensure you use your Figma account email address.
      • Share your library file link and add support-share@figma.com as an Editor to those files (this won’t impact your billing)

      Thank you,

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