Answer text sometimes fails to load, and sometimes unloads after loading

ChrisRimmer commented 1 year ago

Initially reported by Plex in Discord: https://discord.com/channels/677546901339504640/758062805810282526/1076611649487786085

Steps to reproduce:

Clear cache at https://ui.stampy.ai/questions/cache
Load https://aisafety.info/?state=2222_
If the question loaded correctly and the whole answer text appears, return to step 1

Expected behaviour:

The answer text loads reliably

Actual behaviour:

Occasionally the answer text fails to load at all (insufficient testing to provide a %age rate)
(Very?) rarely, the answer text loads, but then "unloads" and is replaced with the placeholder "Loading..." string

Tests performed and other notes:

API response from https://aisafety.info/questions/2222 seems to be correct even when the answer text doesn't render
Tested on at least three devices (Chris' iPhone and desktop, running Safari and Firefox respectively) plus whatever Plex uses

I suspect the steps to reproduce above are incomplete, as the failure rate seemed to slowly go to zero as I repeated the process. In my last ten or so attempt to clear my question cache and reload the page, the answer has loaded correctly every time, after failing quite reliably earlier on. I think the error smells a bit like a race condition, so if there's some network or application level caching happening that might have affected the timing of the network request I can imagine that might be responsible for the increase in my perceived reliability. Just a guess though!