auto loading of posts broken

[zippy]

one of the recent additions has broken the auto-loading of posts when the UI first runs. To reproduce:

• fire up the app with hcdev web
• add some meows
• reaload the UI with the browser reload button.

you will see no posts.

• [ ] add UI test to cover this case

[pythagorean]

I've fixed this bug along with #101, which is the same issue.

I've hopefully attached the diff here, as I do not currently have privilege to create a pull request.

bugfix-101-103-persist-to-fix-refresh.diff.gz