Hey all. When I am writing long-form topics (1000 - 2000 words), the editor that I am writing the topics lags a lot. It gets stacked and lags when scrolling the editor to skim through content or when I try to enter, give space, or even upload something. Is this a discourse bug, my browser (Edge) …

Are you able to reproduce this here, on this site ?

Well, I haven’t tried posting that long topic here, but I will just paste a long topic here to test editing. (I won’t post it) Just now I have finished a topic with almost 3000 words, and I have struggled a lot to skim through content while editing. And I have even created multiple topics so that …

What is this feature and use case? [The image is a screenshot of a message box with the text "slow mode prevents editing" and a checkbox next to it, which is checked. (Captioned by AI)]

Slow mode can be enabled on topics by TL4+ users if the topic is getting heated or if replies are in rapid succession. It basically allows users to post every x minutes in that topic.

When writing long topic the editor lags

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Akon_Konvict (Akon Konvict) October 31, 2024, 3:22am 4

What is this feature and use case?

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When writing long topic the editor lags

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