A side note - it would be nice if the initial render could take place without any avatars…
… and then later load them, getting that initial render quicker would be nice.
Obviously this might look very different when there are no 302 redirects
This only happens when you store resources in S3 from what I understand. I do get initial render before avatars load, I know when we were in Australia on wifi I saw lots of slow network effects.
Why would image load block initial render? I certainly do not see that. The page has no knowledge of images until the JavaScript draws the html on the page…
Yeah, it is a known issue with S3 as an image host, we have a very yucky redirect.
We want to fix it but it is very complicated. If we can somehow get an avatar template going on s3 instead of different assets and guids for each resized avatar we may be able to correct it.
