Freshly inserted macro sits on a placeholder for a long time before showing content

What you are seeing

You have just inserted a markdown macro, and it shows a placeholder for a long time before any content appears.

#Why it happens

The document exists but hasn't been indexed yet, so the macro checks again every 15 seconds, up to 10 times. That is about two and a half minutes.

Wait a moment, then refresh the page. If the content never appears, open the macro's configuration and save the content again.

Setting	Where	What it does
Global settings → Capabilities → Markdown	-	Hiding Markdown removes it from the Capable navigation bar and the byline menu across the whole site. It does not stop existing macros from rendering.
Global settings → Migration	-	Markdown is not excluded from migration, so its tab is included.
Markdown-specific settings	-	There is no settings page for Markdown on its own. Every switch above lives in the shared Capable settings.

Limit	Value	What happens
Large-document scroll mode	500,000 characters	Past this the document macro shows '⚠️ Large content detected. Rendering in scrollable mode.' and appears in a scrolling box 1200 pixels high instead of inline on the page.
Very large documents	Starts at 500,000 characters	Very large documents are loaded in sections, and only the sections you can see are drawn.
Macro title and description length	50 characters each	The 'Markdown title' and 'Markdown description' fields in the macro configuration, and the title field in the from-scratch editor, all stop at 50 characters.

Two separate reasons. First, the title strip only renders when 'Show Border' is on. With t

The save path never passes the description through, even though the underlying store accep

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