One specific thread is loading slow

TaylorSwift's thread, "How far can i get with Swift WebAssembly in 30 minutes?", takes a very long time to load for me. Even once it does load, I have to scroll very slowly, or else I see posts partially-rendered, or not rendered at all:

I've never had this issue on any other thread. Why would this be happening only there?

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I’m not sure what would cause that.

It works fine for me.

Looking into this, it loads fine if I start at the top of the thread (as in the link above), but if I try to go to a post further down that thread (say, #25 or 30), I encounter this issue. So evidently it's not even the whole thread that's affected.

I’ve noticed the same thing with that specific thread.

The thread is really heavy for images and external links for GitHub than any other thread. I guess forums’ engine is trying to preload all of them before rendering, with GitHub probably taking the most of the time, causing this issue.

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I've also seen it get into a state where regular text and smaller code blocks work fine, but scrollable code blocks appear empty. Any idea what would cause that to happen?

I’ve had a lot of issues with Github lately, like steadily getting worse for a month or so. Slowdowns, disconnects, server down, random errors and panics, rate limiting without interaction, etc.

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There's a link to GitHub that got embedded, and includes 3 lines that each contain a rather large file encoded as Base64. Could @taylorswift or a moderator edit that post so that the embed is presented as a plan link? That should fix the issue.

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i’m not seeing this issue, but i edited that link

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It seems to be loading a lot faster now, thanks!

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