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You might have an active Home timeline, unfortunately, #Mastodon instances won't keep all messages. So you might lose/miss some of them.
#Fedilab introduced the ability to cache your Home timeline in the background. This is also useful if you have a weak connection, the app will read them later from cache. #FedilabTips

Screenshot showing charts with all Home timeline messages collected and put in app cache. Tapping on charts gives more information about messages collected per day.

When tapping the option, you can enable the feature and set the refresh time to fetch new Home messages. There is also an option to check these fetches through a button called "Check Home cache".

Screenshot of settings where we can see the "Home cache" entry

GarretSidzaka

@GarretSidzaka@mastodon.social replied · 6 days ago

@apps
I have been using different #mastodon apps.....and it all comes back to fedilabs having the killer features. Thank you for the efforts, dev team!
#fedilab

Nik

@nikclayton@mastodon.social replied · 6 days ago

@apps How do you distinguish between "Post is missing from the timeline because the server didn't include it" and "Post is missing from the timeline because the original author deleted it"?

To put it another way, is the app inadvertently showing posts that have been deleted by the original author?

Same question, but for edits. If you cache a post in the timeline at version 1, and it's subsequently edited to version 2, does the app show version 1?

Fedilab Apps

@apps@toot.fedilab.app replied · 6 days ago

@nikclayton
The app fetches the last 400 messages. It makes inserts and updates. But yes when they're out of scope, the information is gathered only when opening details. One solution would be to force a cache validity.

SpaceLifeForm

@SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange replied · 7 days ago

@apps

Even if I had a Home cache, there is only so much time in a day.

vantiss

@vantiss@social.treehouse.systems replied · last week

@apps
I've actually been having an issue with this recently where when I wake up, there's a huge gap in messages despite using this feature - without any "show/fetch more" option

I wind up having to clear the cache and restart, then scroll all the way down to pull the messages in

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