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?
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
@moseschrute@lemmy.world you might want to lock this community (check “only moderators can post” in the community settings)
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?
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
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.
