Yeah, I don’t know what’s happening, but Invidious was always more reliable, at least for me. Which is very ironic, since Piped was created to fix many issues with Invidious.
I think part of this issue is the use of shiny new Javascript frameworks™️ and while I’m not on the “javascript framework bad” hype train, it’s not normal for parts of the UI to simply not load after 3 refreshes of the webpage, while the rest loads fine.