Hi;
Adding a button called "Comparing (diff only)" like the current "Comparing selected revisions" (see [1]) it would be useful and faster for history checkers. The button must link to &diffonly=1 comparison. This avoid loading (and rendering?) the whole page, what is slow for large pages.
Regards,
emijrp
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia&action=history
Version: unspecified
Severity: trivial
We should be able to solve this in a more elegant way by using the approach described in bug 25289. Rather than adding more options in the UI, we can merely make the diff display before the old revision is done loading, and then load the old revision in due time.
emijrp, do you still want this? Are the suggestions in comments 2 and 3 sufficient, or do you want a core change for this?
Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2020-09-08T09:17:58Z] <arturo> upgrading acme-chief deb package from 0.25-1 to 0.28-1 on project-proxy-acme-chief-01 (T26223