Historically due to https://meta.discourse.org/t/why-is-discourse-so-slow-on-android/8823
we decreased page sizes of both home page and topic page on android by half.
This was done on the server side and as a side effect and caused page sizes on android
to mismatch between Android and non Android.
Unfortunately about a year ago googlebot started pretending it is Android,
this cause Google to start indexing pages as what android would see. So
it saw double the amount of pages in the index as what exists on desktop.
This in turn caused double the amount of indexing work and a large amount
of broken links on long topics.
This fix removes all special behavior which is no longer needed due to
other performance work in Discourse including raw handlebars on home page
and virtual dom on topic pages.
I tested we do not need this on Blu Advance 5.0 it has 1.3 GHZ mediatec mt6580
This phone retails for around $50 USD.
If we decide long term that we want any hacks like this we will shift them
to the client side. It can just hold data in memory without rendering.
This feature is used for defer loading of images and in future for post cloaking
This gives us a polyfill so we can safely use the feature in problem browsers
The polyfill supports "polling" but it does not appear we need it yet.
If we discover anything odd here, consider setting poll interval per:
https://github.com/w3c/IntersectionObserver/tree/master/polyfill
```
var io = new IntersectionObserver(callback);
io.POLL_INTERVAL = 100; // Time in milliseconds.
```
Keeping the mutation observer cause we often mutate the DOM
Previously the 'reconnect' process was a bit magic - IF you were already logged into discourse, and followed the auth flow, your account would be reconnected and you would be 'logged in again'.
Now, we explicitly check for a reconnect=true parameter when the flow is started, store it in the session, and then only follow the reconnect logic if that variable is present. Setting this parameter also skips the 'logged in again' step, which means reconnect now works with 2fa enabled.
Some URLs in browsers are non compliant and contain twos `#` this commit adds
special handling for this edge case by auto encoding any fragments containing `#`
The wizard searches for:
* a topic that with the "is_welcome_topic" custom field
* a topic with the correct slug for the current default locale
* a topic with the correct slug for the English locale
* the oldest globally pinned topic
It gives up if it didn't find any of the above.
Also added some helpful functionality for plugin developers:
- Raises RuntimeException if the auth provider has been registered too late
- Logs use of deprecated parameters
