Discourse Loading Time

[j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux)]

Well you are in luck, @david just released this:

Horizontal loading slider

This functionality is now part of Discourse core. Use the ‘page loading indicator’ setting to enable it. More details below. This theme component removes the core Discourse loading spinner, and replaces it with a loading slider at the top of the screen. This is a common approach on other sites (e.g. GitHub). The advantage is that there is less ‘flickering’ of content during a page change. Potential disadvantage is that it makes Discourse feel less like an app and more like…

I’m closing this topic though as it’s very old.