We’re experiencing inconsistent page loads on our Discourse forum while navigating between top-level categories and their respective subcategory pages. Sometimes the content loads as expected, but other times it requires a manual refresh for the content to appear.
Additionally, we’ve enabled the breadcrumb component, which also fails to display on certain pages and its not inconsistent unless manually refreshed.
Our setup:
- No multi-level category structure
- Hosted on a Linux VPS with 16GB RAM (no evident resource bottlenecks)
- CDN is enabled
- we have custom theme and few plugin and components have be installed.
We’re looking for guidance on:
- What might be causing these inconsistent load/render issues?
- Could the CDN or any client-side caching be interfering?
- Are there specific server/client configurations, plugins, or theme components that we should examine?
- How can we ensure that category content and dynamic elements like breadcrumbs consistently load without requiring a refresh?
Any insights or recommended troubleshooting steps would be greatly appreciated.