Hi Sam,
Sorry if I should have created a fresh topic for the query but this old thread seems to be the closest to what I could find searching through the meta.
We have been getting similar reports from our users in China:
https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/freeCodeCamp/issues/40058
We asked our users / moderators to report back with using a VPN and without one. Looking at the discussion in the tracker it seems that it’s something to do with the AWS CDN?
We do have a self-hosted (which we use for testing) Discourse as well which does not seem to have the slow load times.
Is there anything we can do to help fix this?
Thanks a lot for all that you all do for us.
Cheers.