Nobody trolled it before the HN FrontPage.

Whatever it is, if something hit the crowd, you will end up with people trolling. No matter how much moderation you add.

You can check it now and things are much calmer and friendlier. The same if you go to other people's websites using TownSquare.

Regaring the mobile resources usage, I'll need to fix it. I'll be working on it next.

I’m not on pc so can’t inspect it, but make it a sandboxes iframe so it can’t interact with the parent site.

Is there a way to throttle iframe cpu usage ?

You could probably queue messages, cull old messages, cap concurrent connections. That may be the issue is too many peers