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Saved threads are not cached (?) (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/blorp@lemmy.ml
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Blorp is announced to be a caching client for Lemmy but the first thing that should be cached IMO is Saved posts for offline reading.

Currently Saved does not open in full Offline situation. Is it a bug?

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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Just FYI this community has moved to !blorp@lemmy.zip, so the dev might not see this post. As far as I know this isn't implemented so its a missing feature not a bug

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    • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Community has moved, but I don’t mind answering here.

    Offline stuff is…. Complicated. In theory, anything you view should be cached offline for 1 week. But we cache it exactly as you viewed it. If you viewed !technology@lemmy.world with “Hot” sort, and then you open the app offline and view !technology@lemmy.world with “Active” sort, you won’t see anything.

    I also noticed an issue yesterday where if you scroll A LOT, the apps cache will grow to the point where app performance crawls to a haul. This is because everything is cached for 1 week. So if you scroll an infinite amount of content in 1 week, an infinite amount if content will be cached. For this reason I’ve been considering purging the cache more frequently or after it hits X size.

    An easy fix I could do for saved posts is automatically cache them on app launch. That way even if you don’t visit the saved page for >1 week, posts will be cached so long as you opened the app online <1 week ago.

    It might be helpful for you to explain how you plan on using the app offline. Are you offline for very long periods of time, or maybe just a few hours?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the detailed answer.

    While the posts are cached the page with the list is not. So you can try it like this: get to full offline (airplane mode) then navigate to Saved.

    My use case is reading the bookmarked posts while in subway (no internet in all stations).

    Thanks

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago*

    Hmm maybe I can add a fallback case that shows all saved posts regardless of sort. I have to see what the performance impact of that would be. Potentially this could be a very bad idea, because I have to scan through all posts in the cache to see which are saved. I’ll run some tests.

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