Why it can't load the content immediately as the normal recent changes / watchlist? Is it ever going to load immediately? I wrote at https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kahvihuone_(tekniikka)#Improvements_coming_soon_to_Recent_Changes that I won't use the feature on the Finnish Wikipedia because it takes too much time to wait before the content is loaded.
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A patch has been created to reduce loading time: T176250 - Deployment soon.
To reduce the loading time to get most recent changes on RecentChanges, click on "View newest changes" (or equivalent wording) link instead of reloading the whole page: .png)
I agree, by the time the old watchlist would've loaded, on the new watchlist I'm still stuck staring at three dots (and this is on the default configuration). There isn't any functionality improvement other than the saved filters feature (all the other options were available before, at least on enWiki), and I don't see why that feature requires that the page take so much longer to load. I am running a browser inside a VM for various reasons that I won't get into, so I'm sure my javascript processing is slower than some people's, but the old watchlist was perfectly usable and responsive.
I'm sorry you're seeing problems with the beta on Watchlist. On which wiki did you see the long load times? And how long would you estimate?
Total loading time is approximately 10 seconds until I see the list of pages in my watchlist, 6 of which is staring at the three dots after the header has loaded. When I disable the new watchlist in my preferences, the old version takes approximately 4 seconds to load.
Thanks for these reports. The team is prioritizing a number of tasks that should speed things up:
Please keep an eye on these and let us know if they help.
I am also getting quite slow loading times as I load filters on enwiki: so much so, that I sometimes flip to other tabs. I really like the content post filter, but its just too slow.
Here's a tip that can help reduce load times on Recent Changes: You don't need to reload the whole page every time you want to see new results. Right above the main results area, you should see a bold link for "View newest changes" (if you don't see it, there probably are no new results available yet). Clicking this will add any new changes that have occurred since the last time you loaded the page (or clicked the link). It will load ONLY those new changes, and avoid a bunch of page overhead (Javascript, etc.) that also loads when you click to reload the browser.
At the moment "View newest" is not available on Watchlist, but we are adding it (here's the task). We're also looking for a way to reload the page without all he overhead, but that will take some experimentation.
Let me know if this tip helps.
Clicking the "view newest changes" link takes longer to update than reloading the old watchlist page did.
All, how do you usually refresh the page to get the newest edits? Do you refresh the page (F5)? Have you noticed before the "View newest changes" link Joe mentions? Thanks.
Well, I usually open the recent changes page, check something there, then close it, and later open the page again. I rarely left the page open, and when I do, I refresh the page (ctrl+r or F5, it's the same) normally. So now I don't need to refresh the page, as there is the live updates feature.
I always use many tabs on browser, so that's why I have used to close them when I don't need them, and when I need them again, I'll open them again.
I would think that most of my behaviour is similar to @Stryn as well: I rarely leave a tab idefinitely open and refresh: rather I open the watchlist in a new tab, or go to it by clicking on a link. Also, the default behaviour when clicking on links in the watchlist, is to navigate to that page (instead of opening a new tab), so most folks are going to leave the page.
I usually open links in the same tab as the Beo (watchlist), and click on Beo on the top again to go back there. If I was in another tab an came back to the Beo, I'll hit F5. Grüße vom Sänger ♫(Reden) 16:16, 21 September 2017 (UTC)