Using Discourse as commenting system via JavaScript: Delay load or load on scroll

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As mentioned above, I use discourse as the commenting system and here’s an example

Quite a few users upload images to the comments and the JS itself is impacting the load time.

Is there a way I can load the commenting system only on scroll? Which if you think about it makes sense – you need to load it only on user intent – when to read comments.

Edit

This is the code I use

<div id="comments" class="ct-post-end-section">
	<div id='discourse-comments'></div>
	<script type="text/javascript">
	  DiscourseEmbed = { discourseUrl: 'https://comments.alittlebitofspice.com/',
                     discourseEmbedUrl: '<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>' };
	  (function() {
	    var d = document.createElement('script'); d.type = 'text/javascript'; d.async = true;
	    d.src = DiscourseEmbed.discourseUrl + 'javascripts/embed.js';
	    (document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0] || document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0]).appendChild(d);
	  })();
	</script>
</div><!-- #comments -->

Wonder if it’s the right approach to attach the script to onscroll? Although I understand complexities between repeated scroll events firing.

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Look for a plugin named “lazy load” on your blog. that’ll only load images when it actually enters the viewport of the reader.

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I don’t do lady load on the blog posts due to SEO reasons. Hit me hard some time back. Nevertheless, a lazy load plugin is not going to do anything to the commenting system (which is in an IFRAME).

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Right. an iframe won’t be affected by lazy load. my bad. maybe developers can help you out.

But I don’t get this. How lazy load affected SEO?

Crawlers look for HTML code and tags. images load only after entering the viewport, but the code is always available after first load.

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That Discourse lazy load might be more relevant:
https://meta.discourse.org/t/lazyload-images/90472?u=jesus2099

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In theory what you are saying is right. But Google works in mysterious ways.

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I don’t think that’d help on the blog as well.

There needs to be a lazy loading option within the discourse comments plugin itself, if that’s what she is asking for

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