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by smarx 4940 days ago
No, not really. Only the person pressing refresh would get slower responses, and we do limit the number of calls we'll make to Dropbox for a given site.

I may not have explained properly. What happens is that when we get a request that looks like a refresh, we ask Dropbox for updates before we fulfill the request. So it's only that specific request that is slowed down.