Some users are complaining that our forum has been loading noticeably slower for them recently. On looking into this further it appears as though avatars are being force reloaded on the forum in question (as well as one other forum running recent/the latest version of Discourse) but this is not happening on forums running older version of Discourse (they’re all on the same server) or over here at meta. It happens even when using the stock style or with all components disabled.
Here’s a video that demonstrates the difference: video
- meta.discourse - avatars load with main page content
- (running older Discourse version) - avatars load with main page content
– - (running latest Discourse version 3.1.0.beta5 0790e9f4f1) - avatars load in after main page content
- (running latest Discourse version 3.1.0.beta5 0790e9f4f1) - avatars load in after main page content
As mentioned 2,3,4 are all on the same server. I also checked other forums we are running which are on older versions of Discourse and they load the same as (1) and (2), so it appears to only be happening with recent versions/3.1.0.beta5.
Any ideas why this might be happening? Do you run a different version of Discourse over here at meta that might explain the difference? Has anyone else noticed this?