#45

indeed; soundcloud in particular, and the embeds in general, greatly increase page loads. that’s even true to some extent on the desktop. but the front page list of topics is the slowest thing, by far. takes 8 seconds to finish loading, and it’s not threaded to start displaying as it trickles in–it’s everything at once, all or nothing.

the long, infinite-scrolling multi-hundred-post threads are also painful to wade through, on mobile especially but also the desktop. i wish discourse offered paginated layouts, to limit the sheer weight of the JS reply fetching. infinite scrolling is not a user-friendly feature.

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#46

infinite scrolling is not a user-friendly feature.

totally agree there.

ut the front page list of topics is the slowest thing, by far. takes 8 seconds

for me it is about 4s with the above-mentioned ping times. i blame gravatar.

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#47

I also see dramatic increase in load time for pages that contain multiple Soundcloud OR videos embedded. Using Safari on my iPad.
In fact some pages i do not even try to open anymore, like the latest videos page, because it chokes completely.

#48

My iPad is simply to old for these things and tends to freeze since I accidentally did an OS update (but got better with the actual one) so I would not open video threads either - things like the GIF thread on muffwiggler go even worse, takes hours to load and nothing moves…

But apart from this I find the lines to be pretty straight and fast moving on all my devices.

#49

No obvious slowdown or other issues here with Chrome on a Nexus 5. Or Safari on an old Macbook Pro. I’ve come to quite appreciate Discourse as a forum platform having mainly been used to phpBB which I find a bit painful.

#51

Not really a fine tuning thing, but this new orange line has started popping up. Unless I’m missing something, I can’t really tell what it’s supposed to signify, as it doesn’t divide new replies, new posts, date/time.

It seems to imply a ‘sticky’ area above it, but it’s not that either as it moves around and has regular posts above it.

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#52

I think it’s new posts since you last visited… maybe? I’ve seen it as well.

#53

I guess that’s it. Just seems redundant with the ‘unread’ little blue dots, and the ‘new’ thread stuff.

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#55

Yup that’s it. It’s funny seeing how many other people have responded to it seeming like a bug.

My first response was to try to grab and move it, then I reloaded to see if ‘the bug would go away’.

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#56

I think it IS buggy. Because it doesn’t move between visits.

But that’s the thing about Jeff. He has very strong UX opinions and it’s nearly impossible to debate him on the topic. That doesn’t mean he’s always wrong. He’s right more often than not. But in those other cases, his attitude can be frustrating.

#57

It’s (by a million miles) the best forum software I’ve encountered, but that in particular doesn’t make any sense to me, given the other visual indicators.

#58

That’s why I don’t sweat the small stuff (much).

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#59

The orange line has a new feature, the label ‘last visit’ in the middle. Yes!! :slight_smile:

#60

Personally I like the little orange line, especially when visiting from different devices (as some ‘read’ messages aren’t ‘visited’ grey). Thankfully it’s pretty unobtrusive at least to my eyes.

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#61

Is the orange line positioned the same on all your devices? Mine is different , depending on when I’ve been here with each device. I keep orientation by spotting the time of the newest posts, but it’s getting harder since the traffic has increased with ansible and arc.

#62

I must say I don’t get the orange line. It’s almost always located below threads/posts I’ve already seen in the overview last time I visited.

edit: even when I log out and in again

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#63

…but it does look nice!

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#64

Has anyone noticed UTF-8 meta Jvs Css activity?

Im not sure if its a Digital Ocean thing, or firefox.
The meta code seems brilliant…but there are exploits in privacy within the meta-java scripts.

#65

I’ve occasionally had this problem especially when posting from a mobile device (90% of my time here)