search

scripting / feedlandSupport

A place to share and discover feeds.
14 stars 1 forks source link

My News page isn't displaying #140

Open scripting opened 1 year ago

scripting commented 1 year ago

How to reproduce:

  1. Choose My news from the first menu.
  2. The top part of the page displays, then nothing for a while, then a dialog saying There was an error communicating with the server.

Interestingly I tried to reproduce the error on my local version of FeedLand which I can use the debugger on, and it worked as before.

I'm posting this here to see if anyone else is seeing this?

It just started for me yesterday, after I fixed the bug reported yesterday. Coincidence? We'll find out.

scripting commented 1 year ago

Wellllll -- I did find the problem but I wasn't happy about what I found.

Somewhere along the line my appPrefs.json file got wiped. And part of what I lost were the categories for my river.

Why this is weird is that they are backed up in a table in the database. And that was wiped too. Luckily I had another backup and was able to restore the categories, so I'm back in business.

But then there's the question of why timelines are so slow to render when there are no categories. I saw that yesterday too when I had to test with a virgin account, one that had never been used for FeedLand before.

Anyway if you've noticed your news page has gotten slower, please let me know. At some point I want to figure out why this is and do something about it (usually it's an index that needs to be maintained).