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#Fedilab 3.16.4 has been published in beta.
Added:
- Cache home timeline in background (default disabled -> New settings category and it is per account) / you can change the frequency (default every hour)
- Auto-fetch missing messages for the Home (default disabled -> in Settings > Timelines)
- Automatically switch between tabs when searching
Fixed:
- Some crashes
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Automatic Home cache should help people having an active home timeline (following / followed tags).
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@Piky_Nieves
If you have an active home timeline that will avoid holes.
sᴉnꓶɐʇoſ
@apps
Gooood idea, boy!
My question: Do you suggest me enable the new improvements for, let's say, a better / new / or kind of streaming experience?
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@booteille
Could you send us the crash report?
Booteille
@apps In the left menu, the app crashes when I tap on the Cache menu.
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It's live on Google Play
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@PacMan
You mean instead of attached file?
Rick Umbent
@apps
Would it be possible to have the automatically generated crash reports fill in the email address to send it to please?
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@booteille
No worries, we thought to have fixed an issue when replying. We have to rework that part.
Booteille
@apps
Btw, sorry for succinct messages. I was pretty busy when I reported the issue.
Booteille
@apps
Done!
And another one when I tried to answer from the app.
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@Mrcactuseater
You can reduce their size in settings.
Chris
@apps
Awesome stuff.
Any way we could get the boost & favourite etc icons to be smaller. Find they take up a large amount of the timeline.
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@PacMan Oh. it should be sent to hello[a]fedilab.app
Rick Umbent
@apps
It creates an email for me, with default mail app, but the "mail to" is blank, so where does it get sent? So I've had a couple of crashes (undoubtedly duplicates of other reports) but don't know where to send them.
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@Mrcactuseater
Even after a restart? We will check that.
Chris
@apps
Just discovered that setting immediately after I hit send. I'm not sure it's actually doing anything, or if it is, the change between 180 - 80 is very miniscule.
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@Lon
It seems the cache failed to be updated. Or maybe it was a boost from a boost?
Lisa
@apps
So far the position in timeline is now very solid, even after restarts (to test) and a night sleep. Thank you!?
One thing that I now notice, if I boost a message, the arrow is colored blue. If I see that message later again, my boost is not visible at all until I open the message. Is this expected behavior or a bug? ?
Android 13 Fedilab 3.16.4
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@Lon it only happens when adding to favorites? Is it for all timelines? What happens if you like a message - force kill the app and restart. Is it still in favorites with the yellow?
Lisa
@apps
It was not a boost. I have tested it now: I like a message and the star is yellow. I exit Fedilab and when I come back after a while to the timeline, the star is gone, until I open the message. I see the yellow star. If I then go back to timeline the star stays yellow... only until next time.
I have tried with enabled and disabled "clear cache when leaving", it made no difference.
Not a big problem for me personally, but perhaps not the way you want it to work. ?
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@tjk
Make sure you didn't disable use cache
Tom
@apps I must have misunderstood what background caching meant. I thought I could open the app and it would have already downloaded my timeline, but I'm still having to wait for it every time. I confirmed that the app is not restricted in battery usage.
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@tjk
Simple test, turn off you internet connection and start the app. You should see messages.
Tom
@apps Home cache is enabled, use cache is enabled, clear cache when leaving is disabled.
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@tjk
Yes, but does the app display new messages even the ones not fetched when scrolling?
Tom
@apps Wouldn't that be using the standard cache, though? I thought the new home cache feature was meant to download the timeline in the background, so you didn't have to wait for it when you started the app. I have no doubt that the existing cache works, because I always see messages when I start the app, but they're *old* messages, and no newer ones are available until I wait for it to refresh.
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@tjk
And also is it faster to display them when being offline?
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@tjk
No, it should do what you expected. We will check how it can fail.
Tom
@apps It does display messages that were fetched in my last session but that I hadn't read yet. I assumed it would also be fetching messages that were posted after the last time I started Fedilab, in the background, but maybe I misunderstood.
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@tjk
What fetch do you use by default it's one hour.
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@tjk
It was too great for the test. It means you must wait at least one hour. You can reduce that time.
Tom
@apps one hour. ✔️
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@Lon
First screenshot is not from fedilab. It's a normal behaviour because the message was cached without votes. Just click on refresh.
Lisa
@apps
There is more: When I vote in a poll in Fedilab, I see the results and see what I voted. When I come back later, l don't see poll results, don't see what I voted, even if I open the message.
I can't vote again.
If I check in another app, I can see the results. See images.
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@Lon
"Tap here to refresh" should fix that.
Lisa
@apps
The first screenshot is from other app with timestamp to show that it does not show later in Fedilab.
Not after refresh, not after empty cache, not after kill app.
I have tried this multiple times.
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@Lon it only happens from profiles?
Lisa
@apps
This does not fix it on my device, poll results are only visible when I open that message. See timestamp and number of voters that do go up.
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@Lon also, let time between tests. Poll federation takes time. So the API will return not voted while it was. It's the same for follows.
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@tjk
Bug found and fixed. Thanks for reporting it.
Tom
@apps The same issue happens if I wait overnight, though.
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