Lost access to LR publisher

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@samosa

However, when I add a photo to an existing folder and press the “publish” button the “updating published collections” progress bar just hangs with nothing happening. Normally it takes just seconds to do a whole batch.

That’s due to the version of Lightroom you’re using. LR 11.3 fixed that bug. (one image would publish and then publisher would hang)
The work around is to cancel the publishing and then try again.
Here’s another thing you can try:

Publisher REALLY slow to upload

Just recently I have noticed it is really slow to publish galleries from within LR, I’ve checked all the BK modules are upto date and LR publisher, I’m not seeing any server updates recently that could have caused this. Sometimes LR will hang on uploading and I have to restart LR and “publish” again , my server is running normally and I can upload other files via FTP at expected speeds. So any advise as to how to even start to track the problem?