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The lazy load references feature was added alongside the lazy image in August 2016. Since then it has sat in beta for a period of 3 years without any work. The main blockers for promoting it were around the slowness of the references API that we created. Reasons to remove it: * 3 years and no activity * It uses the mobile view API which we'd like to deprecate * It's buggy and significant work is needed to complete it (see subtasks of goal task) * We're supporting it with a lot of code * It complicates our refactor project POC: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/+/506594 = Sign off steps [] Decline all open subtasks of T123328 and decline T123328 itself

The lazy load references feature was added alongside the lazy image in August 2016. Since then it has sat in beta for a period of 3 years without any work. The main blockers for promoting it were around the slowness of the references API that we created. Reasons to remove it: * 3 years and no activity * It uses the mobile view API which we'd like to deprecate * It's buggy and significant work is needed to complete it (see subtasks of goal task) * We're supporting it with a lot of code * It complicates our refactor project POC: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/+/506594 = Sign off steps [] Decline all open subtasks of T123328 and decline T123328 itself

The lazy load references feature was added alongside the lazy image in August 2016. Since then it has sat in beta for a period of 3 years without any work. The main blockers for promoting it were around the slowness of the references API that we created. Reasons to remove it: * 3 years and no activity * It uses the mobile view API which we'd like to deprecate * It's buggy and significant work is needed to complete it (see subtasks of goal task) * We're supporting it with a lot of code * It complicates our refactor project POC: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/mediawiki/extensions/MobileFrontend/+/506594 = Sign off steps [] Decline all open subtasks of T123328 and decline T123328 itself