litphoria

I've been noticing recently that when I click a character to switch to, I'll have to wait about five seconds before the page suddenly starts loading properly. It used to respond instantly. This has happened in multiple browsers. Originally I thought I hadn't done it right and clicked a few more times to make sure before I noticed it wasn't just me clicking wrong.

Keta is right that it is only slow the first time, I hadn't noticed that.

It is slow in every character switcher for me at first. Even the ones in chats and rps and the one below the comment box here.

My internet is extremely fast. This isn't "page takes five seconds to load", it's "browser does nothing for five seconds then abruptly starts to load the page and does so extremely quickly once it actually starts".

I just now got a slow character switch in the Honnouji Academy chat.

I just checked, and I do not have that issue at all. What browsers are you using?

Checked on my phone, and there was a very slight delay, no more than two seconds, though.

^ that thing

Avent, does the character switcher initiate an AJAX request between the click and the actual page reload, and wait for that to complete before the reload?

I believe so, yes.

I think that is what can make the character switcher sometimes lightning fast and sometimes unresponsive for several seconds. (Or as I experienced the other night for one character - didn't seem to respond at all, or took longer than I waited.)

Maybe putting a loading spinner on the avatar itself while the request is pending would help?