I like the idea of using a “skeleton screen” also for a starting page that’s loading. We actually have a concept of this already, but strictly for topics. You can find a really long topic and test it yourself:
@eviltrout do you think there’s a way we could reuse that for an initial page load?
Hmmm, maybe we could sneak a loader animation into the placeholders themselves somehow? Like one of the mock text bars going from left to right as if to finish the paragraph. Ideally you’d never notice it until you run into a longer page load.