Can confirm, topics stop loading after a while on my Note II with Kit Kat (4.3) and Chrome Mobile 39.0.2171.93. Normally it gets stuck on the loading screen on the 5th or 6th topic I open, while other times it gets stuck at once. Never much later than the 6th, though.
Either way, it’s giving me withdrawal pains to not be able to read everything new while on the bus in the mornings D: