I've been using Astral and I like it. I think it would be helpful to performance if it locally cached some data, like profile pictures for example, and loaded from cache at startup while updating from the network behind the scenes.
The client is great, its just UI inefficiency
I believe a lot of that data used to be cached with indexdb, but it was horribly slow. I know that indexdb was nuked a couple weeks ago and performance easily doubled or tripped.
yes correct. and even still most of the lag is from the db (even though its not persistent). I don't think caching prof pics will help much. but I think I can improve the handling of the db so that it is more responsive.
Astral does a far better job of actually displaying the profile info of accounts and pretty much all events. The other clients, while quicker to load, often don't show the profile info or are missing events. Personally the only thing I'd like Astral to include is likes.
