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## Before

```
Acceptance: Composer::Image resizing buttons: 7985ms
Acceptance: Composer::Edit the first post: 3854ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer with dirty edit can toggle to another edit: 3707ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle between edit and reply: 3704ms
Acceptance: Composer::Tests the Composer controls: 3685ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer draft with dirty reply can toggle to edit: 3670ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle layouts (open, fullscreen and draft): 3278ms
Acceptance: Composer::Switching composer whisper state: 3266ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create a topic with server side errors: 3253ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer with dirty reply can toggle to edit: 3189ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create a Topic: 3168ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create an enqueued Topic: 2767ms
Acceptance: Composer::Posting on a different topic: 2394ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can switch between edits: 2318ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create an enqueued Reply: 2317ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create a Reply: 2292ms
Acceptance: Composer::Checks for existing draft: 1696ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle between reply and createTopic: 1415ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle whispers: 1296ms
Acceptance: Composer::Loading draft also replaces the recipients: 594ms
```

## After

```
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle layouts (open, fullscreen and draft): 2305ms
Acceptance: Composer::Switching composer whisper state: 2205ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer draft with dirty reply can toggle to edit: 2185ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle between edit and reply: 1719ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer with dirty edit can toggle to another edit: 1682ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer with dirty reply can toggle to edit: 1657ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle between reply and createTopic: 1412ms
Acceptance: Composer::Posting on a different topic: 1341ms
Acceptance: Composer::Edit the first post: 1327ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create an enqueued Reply: 1306ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can toggle whispers: 1265ms
Acceptance: Composer::Composer can switch between edits: 1260ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create a Reply: 1259ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create a topic with server side errors: 1183ms
Acceptance: Composer::Checks for existing draft: 1172ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create a Topic: 1130ms
Acceptance: Composer::Image resizing buttons: 921ms
Acceptance: Composer::Create an enqueued Topic: 731ms
Acceptance: Composer::Tests the Composer controls: 654ms
Acceptance: Composer::Loading draft also replaces the recipients: 540ms

```


That is not a typo... image resizing button went from 8 seconds to 1 second
2019-03-20 16:44:00 +11:00
.tx Add Hungarian locale (#6260) 2018-08-13 01:02:35 +02:00
app DEV: speed up ember acceptance tests 2019-03-20 16:44:00 +11:00
bin FEATURE: always update docker image for dev prior to launching 2019-02-18 13:12:00 +11:00
config Bump logster version to 2.2.0 (#7200) 2019-03-19 09:39:16 +01:00
db FIX: seed data classes couldn't always be found 2019-03-18 23:13:47 +01:00
docs Ruby version update (#7100) 2019-03-04 12:34:22 +01:00
images fix image location 2014-09-11 17:56:29 +10:00
lib FIX: Use default frame size for Instagram login 2019-03-19 18:57:57 +00:00
log
packaging/debian Fix .pkgr.yml so that discourse can be packaged with https://pkgr.io. 2014-03-26 15:08:53 +00:00
plugins Missing translation key 2019-03-19 12:51:10 -04:00
public FIX: windows has no country flags (#7199) 2019-03-18 19:28:49 +01:00
script Nodebb importer: add permalinks, exclude disabled categories 2019-03-18 21:59:02 -04:00
spec FIX: don't redirect incorrectly after full screen login (#7170) 2019-03-19 12:39:13 +00:00
test DEV: correct qunit runner for autospec 2019-03-20 16:44:00 +11:00
vendor FIX: experimental fix to Ember.ENV.EXTEND_PROTOTYPES rare exception (#7133) 2019-03-08 15:12:13 +01:00
.codeclimate.yml FEATURE: Replace composer editor with ember version 2015-11-06 09:49:16 -05:00
.editorconfig Set trim_trailing_whitespace false for markdown 2016-06-25 22:29:01 +04:30
.env.sample
.eslintignore DEV: Yarn-manage moment and moment-timezone libraries 2019-02-12 13:57:52 -05:00
.eslintrc FIX: expandAllPinned was not resetting after visiting a category 2019-01-14 13:02:25 -05:00
.gitattributes Use proper encoding for email fixtures. 2018-02-21 17:06:35 +08:00
.gitignore ignore maxmind db 2018-10-10 14:30:51 +11:00
.overcommit.yml DEV: Run bundler and yarn and check YAML files in overcommit hooks 2018-09-27 04:57:37 +02:00
.pkgr.yml Fix .pkgr.yml so that discourse can be packaged with https://pkgr.io. 2014-03-26 15:08:53 +00:00
.prettierignore DEV: unpin Prettier version, apply to YAML files 2019-01-17 13:05:39 -05:00
.rspec DEV: Use --profile and --fail-fast in CI only 2019-03-11 22:04:47 -04:00
.rubocop.yml Update Rubocop to 0.60 2018-12-04 10:48:16 +01:00
.ruby-gemset.sample
.ruby-version.sample Update to latest Ruby release 2018-11-28 10:20:03 +11:00
.travis.yml DEV: Increase timeout for JS tests on Travis 2019-03-18 23:55:50 +01:00
adminjs
Brewfile FIX: brewfile was out of date 2018-03-01 10:15:37 +01:00
config.ru FEATURE: allow plugins to easily detect if running in Rack 2017-11-16 08:39:29 +11:00
CONTRIBUTING.md Proper long form for CLA 2015-09-10 20:49:03 +02:00
COPYRIGHT.txt
d add wrappers for mailcatcher and sidekiq 2016-12-13 09:05:45 +11:00
Dangerfile DEV: tracks self pattern in Dangerfile (#7102) 2019-03-04 13:03:59 +01:00
discourse.sublime-project DEV: Exclude i18n .yml files from Sublime Text project. (#6473) 2018-10-10 20:21:24 +08:00
Gemfile SECURITY: Upgrading Rails version to 5.2.2.1 2019-03-13 16:24:54 -03:00
Gemfile.lock Bump logster version to 2.2.0 (#7200) 2019-03-19 09:39:16 +01:00
jsapp
LICENSE.txt
package.json Bump FontAwesome icons to 5.7.2 2019-03-06 09:21:31 -05:00
Rakefile Add rubocop to our build. (#5004) 2017-07-28 10:20:09 +09:00
README.md HTTPSify links (#7046) 2019-02-22 16:29:27 +01:00
yarn.lock Bump FontAwesome icons to 5.7.2 2019-03-06 09:21:31 -05:00

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