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Thunder - An open-source cross-platform Lemmy client for iOS and Android built with Flutter
https://thunderapp.dev
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Update votes, and comments in real time #1003

Open K4LCIFER opened 11 months ago

K4LCIFER commented 11 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Comments, and votes are static until you manually refresh the feed.

Describe the solution you'd like It would be awesome if they updated in real time as votes and comments are added.

Describe alternatives you've considered None.

Additional context None.

hjiangsu commented 11 months ago

Thanks for the suggestion!

This is not feasible right now due to how Lemmy handles its API. Lemmy uses HTTP/REST for its API endpoints, which means that we would need to constantly poll/refetch information in order to update the upvote/downvotes, etc.

For it to be practical, we would need to use web sockets (or something similar) to subscribe/stream updates. Lemmy used to do this, but they removed it in 0.17.0 due to performance issues if I recall correctly. If they do introduce it back in the future, then this might be possible!

hjiangsu commented 11 months ago

I'll mark this issue as "on hold" until there are further developments that allows this to be implemented in a more efficient manner!