Show a loader starting page for slow connections?

[jesus2099]

There has been a new loading animation for a few days or weeks, here.
It’s not mentioned in this topic.

[JammyDodger]

There’s a bit about it in the announcement topic:

@jomaxro

Loading splash screen

For users with less powerful devices, or low bandwidth, the initial page load may take a few seconds. Discourse now displays a splash screen, rather than a blank white page, so users know something is happening.

[jesus2099]

I cannot answer to @jomaxro over there but there is a little stylesheet issue when I run this in my Android 9 Kiwi Browser 101.0.4951.40:

The text appears on top over the coloured discs instead of beneath.
So it’s not as legible as it is intended to be in the design screen captures.

Same occurs even when I disable all my extensions, Stylus and Violentmonkey.

[Johani (Joe)]

This is now implemented

See

Introducing Discourse Splash - A visual preloader displayed while site assets load

Discourse is a single-page Javascript application. This means that navigation within the app is blazingly fast. The compromise with modern web applications is that they must be loaded and parsed on the initial page view. While we’ve been doing a lot of work over the years to optimize how we serve site assets, this can sometimes be a little bit slow based on device/network conditions. Over the last few weeks, we’ve been actively working and testing potential improvements for the initial wait th…

For more details.

@jesus2099

little stylesheet issue

Should be fixed now; thanks for reporting the issue @jesus2099

[jesus2099]

Yes!! It looks great, now!