perf(comment): static comment renderer + lazy editors + memoized list (#340)

The comment panel lagged for seconds on open and stuttered on every resolve/apply
with many comments (real case: 30 open + 326 resolved ≈ 356 threads), because each
comment body mounted a full TipTap/ProseMirror editor, both tabs mounted at once,
and any mutation re-rendered the whole list.

- CommentContentView: static recursive renderer of comment ProseMirror JSON (no
  editor instance) for the read-only body — supports exactly CommentEditor's node
  set (doc/paragraph/text/hardBreak/mention) + marks (bold/italic/strike/code/
  link), reproducing the 3-level DOM nesting for pixel-identical CSS. Unknown
  node/mark or unparseable content degrades that one comment to the read-only
  CommentEditor; legacy non-JSON strings render as plain text.
  SECURITY: link hrefs are protocol-allowlisted (safeHref, mirroring
  @tiptap/extension-link) so a stored comment with a `javascript:`/`data:` href
  cannot XSS — the old TipTap read-only path sanitized this; the static renderer
  must too. Control-char smuggling (java\tscript:) is stripped before the check.
- MentionContent extracted from MentionView, shared by the TipTap NodeView and the
  static renderer (identical user/page-mention behavior).
- keepMounted={false} on the tabs: the inactive tab no longer mounts its editors.
- Lazy reply editor: a stub until click/focus, then the real editor (kept mounted
  so the draft survives thread re-renders).
- React.memo(CommentListItem) + a childrenByParent map (replaces the per-thread
  O(n^2) filter) + localized reply-send pending state: resolve/apply/reply now
  re-render only the touched thread.
- Progressive first paint: useCommentsQuery no longer blocks on hasNextPage.

Gate: client comment+mention suites 22/22 passed, tsc --noEmit 0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-content-view.test.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,241 @@
+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
+import { render, screen } from "@testing-library/react";
+import { MantineProvider } from "@mantine/core";
+import { MemoryRouter } from "react-router-dom";
+
+// matchMedia (read by MantineProvider) is stubbed globally in vitest.setup.ts.
+
+// The fallback path renders the full TipTap editor; stub it so we can assert the
+// safety valve fired without pulling in the editor stack.
+vi.mock("@/features/comment/components/comment-editor", () => ({
+  default: () => <div data-testid="comment-editor-fallback" />,
+}));
+
+// Mention rendering hits react-query; stub the page/share queries so the mention
+// case renders in isolation.
+vi.mock("@/features/page/queries/page-query.ts", () => ({
+  usePageQuery: () => ({ data: undefined, isLoading: false, isError: false }),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/features/share/queries/share-query.ts", () => ({
+  useSharePageQuery: () => ({ data: undefined }),
+}));
+
+import { CommentContentView } from "./comment-content-view";
+
+function renderView(content: string | object) {
+  return render(
+    <MantineProvider>
+      <MemoryRouter>
+        <CommentContentView content={content} />
+      </MemoryRouter>
+    </MantineProvider>,
+  );
+}
+
+const doc = (content: any[]) => JSON.stringify({ type: "doc", content });
+const para = (content: any[]) => ({ type: "paragraph", content });
+const text = (t: string, marks?: any[]) => ({ type: "text", text: t, marks });
+
+describe("CommentContentView", () => {
+  it("renders paragraphs as <p> with text", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(doc([para([text("Hello world")])]));
+    expect(screen.getByText("Hello world")).toBeDefined();
+    expect(container.querySelector("p")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("reproduces the read-only CommentEditor DOM nesting for CSS parity", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(doc([para([text("x")])]));
+    // outer .commentEditor > .ProseMirror (module) > .ProseMirror (global) > p
+    const globalPm = container.querySelector("div.ProseMirror > p");
+    expect(globalPm).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("renders the bold mark as <strong>", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([para([text("bold", [{ type: "bold" }])])]),
+    );
+    const el = container.querySelector("strong");
+    expect(el?.textContent).toBe("bold");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the italic mark as <em>", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([para([text("it", [{ type: "italic" }])])]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("em")?.textContent).toBe("it");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the strike mark as <s>", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([para([text("st", [{ type: "strike" }])])]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("s")?.textContent).toBe("st");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the code mark as <code>", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([para([text("co", [{ type: "code" }])])]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("code")?.textContent).toBe("co");
+  });
+
+  it("renders the link mark as an anchor with safe rel/target", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          text("click", [
+            { type: "link", attrs: { href: "https://example.com" } },
+          ]),
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    const a = container.querySelector("a");
+    expect(a?.getAttribute("href")).toBe("https://example.com");
+    expect(a?.getAttribute("target")).toBe("_blank");
+    expect(a?.getAttribute("rel")).toBe("noopener noreferrer nofollow");
+    expect(a?.textContent).toBe("click");
+  });
+
+  it("neutralizes a javascript: link href (stored XSS) while keeping the text", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          text("click", [
+            { type: "link", attrs: { href: "javascript:alert(1)" } },
+          ]),
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    const a = container.querySelector("a");
+    expect(a).not.toBeNull();
+    // No navigable javascript: href — attribute is absent (or empty).
+    expect(a?.getAttribute("href")).toBeFalsy();
+    // The link text is still rendered.
+    expect(a?.textContent).toBe("click");
+  });
+
+  it("neutralizes a control-char-obfuscated javascript: href", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          text("x", [
+            { type: "link", attrs: { href: "java\tscript:alert(1)" } },
+          ]),
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("a")?.getAttribute("href")).toBeFalsy();
+  });
+
+  it("neutralizes a data: link href", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          text("x", [
+            {
+              type: "link",
+              attrs: { href: "data:text/html,<script>alert(1)</script>" },
+            },
+          ]),
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("a")?.getAttribute("href")).toBeFalsy();
+  });
+
+  it("preserves a mailto: link href (allowlisted scheme)", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          text("mail", [
+            { type: "link", attrs: { href: "mailto:a@b.com" } },
+          ]),
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("a")?.getAttribute("href")).toBe(
+      "mailto:a@b.com",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("preserves a relative link href (no scheme, not a script vector)", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          text("rel", [{ type: "link", attrs: { href: "/some/path" } }]),
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("a")?.getAttribute("href")).toBe(
+      "/some/path",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("nests multiple marks on one text node", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([para([text("x", [{ type: "bold" }, { type: "italic" }])])]),
+    );
+    // bold wraps italic (or vice versa) — both elements exist around the text.
+    expect(container.querySelector("strong")).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(container.querySelector("em")).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByText("x")).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it("renders hardBreak as <br/>", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([para([text("a"), { type: "hardBreak" }, text("b")])]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("br")).not.toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("renders a user mention as a styled span", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          {
+            type: "mention",
+            attrs: { label: "Alice", entityType: "user", entityId: "u1" },
+          },
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(screen.getByText("@Alice")).toBeDefined();
+    // No fallback to the editor.
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-editor-fallback")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("renders a page mention as a link", () => {
+    const { container } = renderView(
+      doc([
+        para([
+          {
+            type: "mention",
+            attrs: {
+              label: "Some Page",
+              entityType: "page",
+              slugId: "pg1",
+            },
+          },
+        ]),
+      ]),
+    );
+    expect(container.querySelector("a")).not.toBeNull();
+    expect(screen.getByText("Some Page")).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it("renders a legacy plain-text (non-JSON) string as plain text", () => {
+    renderView("just a legacy string");
+    expect(screen.getByText("just a legacy string")).toBeDefined();
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-editor-fallback")).toBeNull();
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to CommentEditor for an unknown node type", () => {
+    renderView(doc([{ type: "codeBlock", content: [text("x")] }]));
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("comment-editor-fallback")).toBeDefined();
+  });
+
+  it("falls back to CommentEditor for malformed JSON", () => {
+    renderView('{"type":"doc","content":[');
+    expect(screen.getByTestId("comment-editor-fallback")).toBeDefined();
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-content-view.tsx

@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+import React from "react";
+import classes from "./comment.module.css";
+import { MentionContent } from "@/features/editor/components/mention/mention-view";
+import CommentEditor from "@/features/comment/components/comment-editor";
+
+// Static, editor-free renderer of a comment body (ProseMirror JSON). It walks the
+// document and emits plain DOM, avoiding the cost of a full TipTap/ProseMirror
+// instance per comment (the panel used to spin up 400+ editors on mount).
+//
+// The supported node/mark set MUST mirror what CommentEditor enables
+// (StarterKit + Mention + LinkExtension). Anything outside that set makes the
+// whole comment degrade to the read-only CommentEditor via the fallback below,
+// so we never show a half-rendered comment.
+
+// Sentinel thrown when we hit a node/mark we don't know how to render statically.
+// Caught at the top level to trigger the CommentEditor fallback for the whole comment.
+class UnknownNodeError extends Error {}
+
+// Protocol allowlist mirroring @tiptap/extension-link's default (the read-only
+// CommentEditor path relies on it to blank javascript:/data: hrefs). The static
+// renderer must apply the SAME sanitization because the backend stores comment
+// content verbatim and React does not neutralize javascript: in an href.
+const ALLOWED_URI_SCHEMES = /^(?:https?|ftps?|mailto|tel|callto|sms|cid|xmpp):/i;
+
+function safeHref(href: unknown): string | undefined {
+  if (typeof href !== "string") return undefined;
+  // Strip control chars/whitespace that could smuggle a scheme past the test
+  // (e.g. "java\tscript:").
+  const cleaned = href.replace(/[\u0000-\u0020]/g, "").trim();
+  // Allow relative/anchor/protocol-relative links (no scheme) — not script vectors.
+  if (!/^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]*:/i.test(cleaned)) return href;
+  return ALLOWED_URI_SCHEMES.test(cleaned) ? href : undefined;
+}
+
+interface PMMark {
+  type: string;
+  attrs?: Record<string, any>;
+}
+
+interface PMNode {
+  type: string;
+  attrs?: Record<string, any>;
+  content?: PMNode[];
+  text?: string;
+  marks?: PMMark[];
+}
+
+// Wrap a text node's string in its marks (marks nest, e.g. bold + italic).
+function renderMarks(
+  text: React.ReactNode,
+  marks: PMMark[] | undefined,
+  keyPrefix: string,
+): React.ReactNode {
+  if (!marks || marks.length === 0) return text;
+
+  return marks.reduce<React.ReactNode>((acc, mark, i) => {
+    const key = `${keyPrefix}-m${i}`;
+    switch (mark.type) {
+      case "bold":
+        return <strong key={key}>{acc}</strong>;
+      case "italic":
+        return <em key={key}>{acc}</em>;
+      case "strike":
+        return <s key={key}>{acc}</s>;
+      case "code":
+        return <code key={key}>{acc}</code>;
+      case "link": {
+        // LinkExtension (TiptapLink) opens links in a new tab; keep the same
+        // safe rel semantics the editor produces. Sanitize the href against the
+        // extension's protocol allowlist — a disallowed scheme (javascript:,
+        // data:) yields undefined so the anchor is non-navigable but still shows
+        // its text, matching how extension-link blanks a bad href.
+        const href = safeHref(mark.attrs?.href);
+        return (
+          <a
+            key={key}
+            href={href}
+            target="_blank"
+            rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow"
+          >
+            {acc}
+          </a>
+        );
+      }
+      default:
+        throw new UnknownNodeError(`Unknown mark type: ${mark.type}`);
+    }
+  }, text);
+}
+
+function renderNode(node: PMNode, key: string): React.ReactNode {
+  switch (node.type) {
+    case "paragraph":
+      return <p key={key}>{renderChildren(node.content, key)}</p>;
+    case "text":
+      return (
+        <React.Fragment key={key}>
+          {renderMarks(node.text ?? "", node.marks, key)}
+        </React.Fragment>
+      );
+    case "hardBreak":
+      return <br key={key} />;
+    case "mention":
+      return (
+        <span key={key} style={{ display: "inline" }}>
+          <MentionContent attrs={node.attrs as any} />
+        </span>
+      );
+    default:
+      throw new UnknownNodeError(`Unknown node type: ${node.type}`);
+  }
+}
+
+function renderChildren(
+  content: PMNode[] | undefined,
+  keyPrefix: string,
+): React.ReactNode {
+  if (!content) return null;
+  return content.map((child, i) => renderNode(child, `${keyPrefix}-${i}`));
+}
+
+// Reproduce the exact DOM nesting the read-only CommentEditor renders so the
+// scoped CSS in comment.module.css (which targets
+// `.commentEditor .ProseMirror :global(.ProseMirror)` and `.ProseMirror p`)
+// applies pixel-for-pixel. Read-only => no data-editable / data-surface attrs.
+function Shell({ children }: { children: React.ReactNode }) {
+  return (
+    <div className={classes.commentEditor}>
+      <div className={classes.ProseMirror}>
+        <div className="ProseMirror">{children}</div>
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  );
+}
+
+interface CommentContentViewProps {
+  content: string | object;
+}
+
+export function CommentContentView({ content }: CommentContentViewProps) {
+  // Degrade this single comment to the old editor-based render (safety valve).
+  const fallback = () => {
+    if (import.meta.env.DEV) {
+      console.warn(
+        "CommentContentView: unsupported comment content, falling back to editor",
+      );
+    }
+    return <CommentEditor defaultContent={content} editable={false} />;
+  };
+
+  let doc: unknown = content;
+
+  if (typeof content === "string") {
+    try {
+      doc = JSON.parse(content);
+    } catch {
+      const trimmed = content.trim();
+      // Looks like it was meant to be JSON but is malformed -> safety-valve fallback.
+      if (trimmed.startsWith("{") || trimmed.startsWith("[")) {
+        return fallback();
+      }
+      // Otherwise it's a legacy plain-text comment: render as a single paragraph.
+      return (
+        <Shell>
+          <p>{content}</p>
+        </Shell>
+      );
+    }
+  }
+
+  // Double-stringified / legacy plain-text stored as a JSON string.
+  if (typeof doc === "string") {
+    return (
+      <Shell>
+        <p>{doc}</p>
+      </Shell>
+    );
+  }
+
+  try {
+    const pmDoc = doc as PMNode;
+    if (!pmDoc || typeof pmDoc !== "object" || pmDoc.type !== "doc") {
+      throw new UnknownNodeError("Not a ProseMirror doc");
+    }
+    return <Shell>{renderChildren(pmDoc.content, "n")}</Shell>;
+  } catch (err) {
+    if (err instanceof UnknownNodeError) {
+      return fallback();
+    }
+    throw err;
+  }
+}
+
+export default CommentContentView;

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-list-item.test.tsx

@@ -28,6 +28,16 @@ vi.mock("@/features/comment/components/comment-editor", () => ({
   default: () => <div data-testid="comment-editor" />,
 }));
 
+// CommentContentView (used for the read-only body) imports the mention view,
+// which pulls page-query -> main.tsx (createRoot). Stub the queries so the item
+// renders in isolation without the app entry side-effect.
+vi.mock("@/features/page/queries/page-query.ts", () => ({
+  usePageQuery: () => ({ data: undefined, isLoading: false, isError: false }),
+}));
+vi.mock("@/features/share/queries/share-query.ts", () => ({
+  useSharePageQuery: () => ({ data: undefined }),
+}));
+
 import CommentListItem from "./comment-list-item";
 import {
   canShowApply,
@@ -286,3 +296,25 @@ describe("canShowDismiss predicate", () => {
     expect(canShowDismiss(c({ parentCommentId: "p" }), true, true)).toBe(false);
   });
 });
+
+describe("CommentListItem — read-only body renders statically", () => {
+  it("renders the comment body as static text without a TipTap editor", () => {
+    renderItem(
+      baseComment({
+        content: JSON.stringify({
+          type: "doc",
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: "paragraph",
+              content: [{ type: "text", text: "Hello static world" }],
+            },
+          ],
+        }),
+      }),
+    );
+    // Body text is present...
+    expect(screen.getByText("Hello static world")).toBeDefined();
+    // ...and it did NOT go through the (mocked) CommentEditor instance.
+    expect(screen.queryByTestId("comment-editor")).toBeNull();
+  });
+});

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-list-item.tsx

@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import { Group, Text, Box, Badge, Button } from "@mantine/core";
 import { AgentAvatarStack } from "@/components/ui/agent-avatar-stack.tsx";
-import React, { useEffect, useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
+import React, { useMemo, useRef, useState } from "react";
 import classes from "./comment.module.css";
 import { useAtom, useAtomValue } from "jotai";
 import { useTimeAgo } from "@/hooks/use-time-ago";
 import CommentEditor from "@/features/comment/components/comment-editor";
+import CommentContentView from "@/features/comment/components/comment-content-view";
 import { pageEditorAtom } from "@/features/editor/atoms/editor-atoms";
 import CommentActions from "@/features/comment/components/comment-actions";
 import CommentMenu from "@/features/comment/components/comment-menu";
@@ -50,7 +51,6 @@ function CommentListItem({
   const [isEditing, setIsEditing] = useState(false);
   const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
   const editor = useAtomValue(pageEditorAtom);
-  const [content, setContent] = useState<string>(comment.content);
   const editContentRef = useRef<any>(null);
   const updateCommentMutation = useUpdateCommentMutation();
   const deleteCommentMutation = useDeleteCommentMutation(comment.pageId);
@@ -78,22 +78,16 @@ function CommentListItem({
   const isOwnerOrAdmin =
     currentUser?.user?.id === comment.creatorId || userSpaceRole === "admin";
 
-  useEffect(() => {
-    setContent(comment.content);
-  }, [comment]);
 
   async function handleUpdateComment() {
     try {
       setIsLoading(true);
       const commentToUpdate = {
         commentId: comment.id,
-        content: JSON.stringify(editContentRef.current ?? content),
+        content: JSON.stringify(editContentRef.current ?? comment.content),
       };
       await updateCommentMutation.mutateAsync(commentToUpdate);
-      if (editContentRef.current) {
-        setContent(editContentRef.current);
-        editContentRef.current = null;
-      }
+      editContentRef.current = null;
       setIsEditing(false);
     } catch (error) {
       console.error("Failed to update comment:", error);
@@ -350,11 +344,11 @@ function CommentListItem({
         )}
 
         {!isEditing ? (
-          <CommentEditor defaultContent={content} editable={false} />
+          <CommentContentView content={comment.content} />
         ) : (
           <>
             <CommentEditor
-              defaultContent={content}
+              defaultContent={comment.content}
               editable={true}
               onUpdate={(newContent: any) => { editContentRef.current = newContent; }}
               onSave={handleUpdateComment}
@@ -374,4 +368,6 @@ function CommentListItem({
   );
 }
 
-export default CommentListItem;
+// Memoized so a resolve/apply/reply cache update (which only replaces the touched
+// comment's object identity) re-renders that one thread, not all ~356 items.
+export default React.memo(CommentListItem);

apps/client/src/features/comment/components/comment-list-with-tabs.tsx

@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ import CommentActions from "@/features/comment/components/comment-actions";
 import { useFocusWithin } from "@mantine/hooks";
 import { IComment } from "@/features/comment/types/comment.types.ts";
 import { usePageQuery } from "@/features/page/queries/page-query.ts";
-import { IPagination } from "@/lib/types.ts";
 import { extractPageSlugId } from "@/lib";
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 import { useGetSpaceBySlugQuery } from "@/features/space/queries/space-query.ts";
@@ -46,7 +45,9 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
     isError,
   } = useCommentsQuery({ pageId: page?.id });
   const createCommentMutation = useCreateCommentMutation();
-  const [isLoading, setIsLoading] = useState(false);
+  // mutateAsync is a stable reference across renders; depend on it (not the
+  // mutation object) so the reply/comment callbacks stay stable.
+  const createCommentAsync = createCommentMutation.mutateAsync;
   const { data: space } = useGetSpaceBySlugQuery(page?.space?.slug);
 
   const canEdit = page?.permissions?.canEdit ?? false;
@@ -75,13 +76,28 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
     return { activeComments: active, resolvedComments: resolved };
   }, [comments]);
 
+  // Index replies by their parent once, instead of an O(n^2) filter per thread.
+  // The map ref changes on any comments update, so MemoizedChildComments re-runs
+  // (cheap) and re-looks-up, while memoized CommentListItems skip unchanged items.
+  const childrenByParent = useMemo(() => {
+    const m = new Map<string, IComment[]>();
+    for (const c of comments?.items ?? []) {
+      if (c.parentCommentId) {
+        const arr = m.get(c.parentCommentId);
+        if (arr) arr.push(c);
+        else m.set(c.parentCommentId, [c]);
+      }
+    }
+    return m;
+  }, [comments?.items]);
+
   const [isPageCommentLoading, setIsPageCommentLoading] = useState(false);
 
   const handleAddPageComment = useCallback(
     async (_commentId: string, content: string) => {
       try {
         setIsPageCommentLoading(true);
-        const createdComment = await createCommentMutation.mutateAsync({
+        const createdComment = await createCommentAsync({
           pageId: page?.id,
           content: JSON.stringify(content),
         });
@@ -100,27 +116,26 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
         setIsPageCommentLoading(false);
       }
     },
-    [createCommentMutation, page?.id],
+    [createCommentAsync, page?.id],
   );
 
   const handleAddReply = useCallback(
     async (commentId: string, content: string) => {
+      // Pending state lives inside CommentEditorWithActions so sending a reply
+      // does not churn renderComments and re-render the whole list.
       try {
-        setIsLoading(true);
         const commentData = {
           pageId: page?.id,
           parentCommentId: commentId,
           content: JSON.stringify(content),
         };
 
-        await createCommentMutation.mutateAsync(commentData);
+        await createCommentAsync(commentData);
       } catch (error) {
         console.error("Failed to post comment:", error);
-      } finally {
-        setIsLoading(false);
       }
     },
-    [createCommentMutation, page?.id],
+    [createCommentAsync, page?.id],
   );
 
   const renderComments = useCallback(
@@ -143,7 +158,7 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
             userSpaceRole={space?.membership?.role}
           />
           <MemoizedChildComments
-            comments={comments}
+            childrenByParent={childrenByParent}
             parentId={comment.id}
             pageId={page?.id}
             canComment={canComment}
@@ -158,16 +173,15 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
             <CommentEditorWithActions
               commentId={comment.id}
               onSave={handleAddReply}
-              isLoading={isLoading}
             />
           </>
         )}
       </Paper>
     ),
     [
-      comments,
+      childrenByParent,
       handleAddReply,
-      isLoading,
+      page?.id,
       space?.membership?.role,
       canComment,
       canEdit,
@@ -203,6 +217,9 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
       <Tabs
         defaultValue="open"
         variant="default"
+        // Do not mount the inactive tab: the Resolved list (hundreds of items)
+        // stays unmounted while the Open tab is shown, and vice versa.
+        keepMounted={false}
         style={{
           flex: "1 1 auto",
           display: "flex",
@@ -307,7 +324,7 @@ function CommentListWithTabs({ onClose }: CommentListWithTabsProps) {
 }
 
 interface ChildCommentsProps {
-  comments: IPagination<IComment>;
+  childrenByParent: Map<string, IComment[]>;
   parentId: string;
   pageId: string;
   canComment: boolean;
@@ -315,24 +332,18 @@ interface ChildCommentsProps {
   userSpaceRole?: string;
 }
 const ChildComments = ({
-  comments,
+  childrenByParent,
   parentId,
   pageId,
   canComment,
   canEdit,
   userSpaceRole,
 }: ChildCommentsProps) => {
-  const getChildComments = useCallback(
-    (parentId: string) =>
-      comments.items.filter(
-        (comment: IComment) => comment.parentCommentId === parentId,
-      ),
-    [comments.items],
-  );
+  const children = childrenByParent.get(parentId) ?? [];
 
   return (
     <div>
-      {getChildComments(parentId).map((childComment) => (
+      {children.map((childComment) => (
         <div key={childComment.id}>
           <CommentListItem
             comment={childComment}
@@ -342,7 +353,7 @@ const ChildComments = ({
             userSpaceRole={userSpaceRole}
           />
           <MemoizedChildComments
-            comments={comments}
+            childrenByParent={childrenByParent}
             parentId={childComment.id}
             pageId={pageId}
             canComment={canComment}
@@ -360,19 +371,58 @@ const MemoizedChildComments = memo(ChildComments);
 const CommentEditorWithActions = ({
   commentId,
   onSave,
-  isLoading,
   placeholder = undefined,
 }) => {
+  const { t } = useTranslation();
+  // Lazily mount the TipTap reply editor: until the user interacts with the
+  // stub, no editor instance is created for this thread. Once mounted it stays
+  // mounted so the draft is preserved.
+  const [mounted, setMounted] = useState(false);
   const [content, setContent] = useState("");
+  const [isSending, setIsSending] = useState(false);
   const { ref, focused } = useFocusWithin();
   const commentEditorRef = useRef(null);
 
-  const handleSave = useCallback(() => {
-    onSave(commentId, content);
-    setContent("");
-    commentEditorRef.current?.clearContent();
+  const activate = useCallback(() => setMounted(true), []);
+
+  const handleSave = useCallback(async () => {
+    try {
+      setIsSending(true);
+      await onSave(commentId, content);
+      setContent("");
+      commentEditorRef.current?.clearContent();
+    } finally {
+      setIsSending(false);
+    }
   }, [commentId, content, onSave]);
 
+  if (!mounted) {
+    return (
+      <div
+        role="button"
+        tabIndex={0}
+        onClick={activate}
+        onFocus={activate}
+        onKeyDown={(e) => {
+          if (e.key === "Enter" || e.key === " ") {
+            e.preventDefault();
+            activate();
+          }
+        }}
+        style={{
+          padding: "6px",
+          fontSize: "var(--mantine-font-size-sm)",
+          lineHeight: 1.4,
+          color: "var(--mantine-color-placeholder)",
+          cursor: "text",
+          borderRadius: "var(--mantine-radius-sm)",
+        }}
+      >
+        {placeholder || t("Reply...")}
+      </div>
+    );
+  }
+
   return (
     <div ref={ref}>
       <CommentEditor
@@ -381,8 +431,9 @@ const CommentEditorWithActions = ({
         onSave={handleSave}
         editable={true}
         placeholder={placeholder}
+        autofocus={true}
       />
-      {focused && <CommentActions onSave={handleSave} isLoading={isLoading} />}
+      {focused && <CommentActions onSave={handleSave} isLoading={isSending} />}
     </div>
   );
 };