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Huh, is that "observed client-side" or some test dealie?

It's not noticeably longer for me (like, I literally didn't notice for a while because it was a lot closer to the reddit experience) and anyways 'one longer pageload' would be better than 'four slightly shorter pageloads'!

Transition is getting pretty smooth (if not better than Reddit in some ways) -- excellent work man!

You actually can observe it client-side; click the Culture War Roundup comment page and count how long it takes to display the page. It's going to be at least two seconds because that's how long it takes the server to chug through the processing. Double that number again and it'll probably go up to 4-5 seconds, and there's a surprisingly low limit on how long people will comfortably wait for a page to display.

We've got some ideas on how to fix this, but they join a queue of other things we need to deal with.

Transition is getting pretty smooth (if not better than Reddit in some ways) -- excellent work man!

Thanks! I'm pretty happy with it - the shortest-term threats are, somehow, over with.

Now we just gotta deal with the longer-term problems. :V

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