Yeah, it's a relay fetch. Need to add some caching, so that it doesn't download everything over and over. That's what gets expensive.
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There is a thing, tanrouter or something. Caches events and images etc
It requires wrapping the existing queries and switching the calls to the wrapper. Kinda ugly but makes things a lot less traffic.
Yeah, I need to research it some more. Become more performant.
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