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Comment by lelandfe

2 hours ago

I believe this is because they don’t lazyload the document.

The entire conversation sits in the DOM.

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porridgeraisin  1 hour ago

Yeah - is such a large dom of essentially text expected to be that slow?

For what it's worth I use a small script that essentially deletes old chat messages DOM nodes which significantly speeds it up.

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