Q: Is it possible to disable the five blue circles on white background animation on first loading homepage start page and after logging in? It’s annoying!
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It means that your device is not power full enough to run a Discourse forum ;). So far I’ve observed such behaviour while opening a discourse forum in virtual machine.
What a bummer. I’ve evaded the forum site after the update, still have 9x something browser, now using featureless Forum Viewer. I wish good old usenet back! 
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My device (desktop computer) surely is much more powerful than this forum’s server response time! 
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I think we’re all stuck on esr91 browser? Not sure forum viewer needs 5 dots feature, which features are you missing?
Wanted to write cite function, just found it.
Zooming, especially pictures
Rich text functions
Maybe I’ll find more later.
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This is on desktop computer, FF128. Not so important, but I hoped it’s maybe possible to configure it away.
Pretty sure this is just ‘loader’ when js in the background executes, you can probably hide it but would be staring at a white page instead
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That would be better.
You can use privoxy (with https inspection) to add ‘hidden=“true;”’ to this element:
<div class="preloader-image" elementtiming="discourse-splash-visible" style="background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/2000/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink\" version=\"1.1\"><!-- LCP candidate image ...............
And the dots will be gone, it’s not a one-two liner though
EDIT: on desktop ublock:
##.preloader-image
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https://forum.sailfishos.org/?_escaped_fragment_
or appending &_escaped_fragment_ to any link will load a javascript-less version immediately (and nicely demonstrate how quick things could be if discourse wasn’t this overengineered heavy mess that it has become).
This should be doable using privoxy as well.
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With javascript.enabled = false in about:config settings, the forum homepage doesn’t work anymore.
This is a test for the forum reply function.
Sorry for bothering you!
Had a look at the amount of transferred data right now and saw that at first access on this homepage, 2,7MB is transferred and after login the same 2,7MB again. Other browsing the forum consumes only few data volume, except opening a link in a new tab needs again 2,7MB at the beginning.