We did notice on a less powerful machines the browser getting overwhelmed with the rate of new content (even though we're only streaming 10/s instead of the full 3.5k/s actually happening on the backend). I don't know if the poor performance in this context is due to Soapbox, the browser, or just the hardware.

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