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Comment by Zababa

5 years ago

Infinite scrolling on the threads combined with a very slow loading. A thread of 30 replies will not load everything, even though 30 replies is probably less than 1Mb of data.

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int_19h  5 years ago

On the desktop, it also hijacks standard browser shortcuts such as Ctrl+F.

  • vymague  5 years ago

    This drives me crazy. I feel not enough people are complaining about this. Is finding text from the currently-loaded discussion such a niche thing?

    I second the other comments, XenForo is the best currently.

  • Gigachad  5 years ago

    It needs to so that it can search on the backend and show you all instances of that search rather than just what the currently loaded DOM elements contain.

    • int_19h  5 years ago

      On pretty much any other web page, Ctrl+F will search whatever is on the page; why should Discourse be any different?

      I don't mind them having a server-side search function that actually searches the entire thread. I do mind having a heavily-used shortcut hijacked to behave in a non-standard way.

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    • ievans  5 years ago

      This is a great example of a "feature" that seems to make sense but, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on, really bothers me.

      Maybe it's that Discourse's search functionality didn't really work well, or suddenly started searching across threads rather than only the current one (IIRC); maybe it's that it's the only system I can think of (other than google docs) that hijacks the shortcut, but it gave me a very negative first impression of the tool.

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Ajedi32  5 years ago

I've found loading to be extremely fast. Way faster than pagination on most traditional forums, even over a slow mobile connection. On desktop it usually loads faster than I can scroll. Guess it depends on which server you're using?

Example of a long thread, just so we're all on the same page: https://meta.discourse.org/t/trading-buttons-buy-sell-exchan...