Hmm. I will have to look into that. It doesn't happen all the time, but once in a while, and usually, only on my phone. It shouldn't be my phone at all. It is brand new with the latest OS, Nougat. I have noticed my internet being super slow on many occasions though, actually. Today, it was terrible! It was only drizzling outside, too. I live in a small, rural town and we don't have underground fiber optics. Our cable company uses old school above ground wires like back in the day. Seriously though. Today it was slow as 2001 dial up. >_< It suddenly improved around late afternoon/early evening so I had no issues with loading my massive list then. Earlier, though, I couldn't access MDL much at all, on any device.
As for shortening my list...it is a symptom of my OCD to list things. If I had to change to my routine for listing things, it would mess with me. Lol Most people will think it's weird but I simply cannot help it. I really would rather avoid doing that, if at all possible, though, if I ever have no choice, I guess I would have to. :p