Just checked out Hamstr. Way more performant that astral. But went straight back to astral for the 1997 feels.
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Astral also has way more features. It's sluggish, but I put up with it to have working DMs and threads.
haha you're not wrong
Astral isn't the best performing client for sure, but it's got the best feature set of the web based clients with the fewest issues. The really fast ones often fail to load profile data, are missing event data, etc. It's a trade off: better performance or fuller data set.
agree. I keep coming back to Astral..!
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.
That's my experience, too! I found it necessary to close the Astral page (Firefox on MacOS) and start anew sometimes to get it going again.
That’s certainly doesn’t have to be true. But clients are in their infancy. Give it another few months and there will be some significantly more performant clients
No doubt. At the rate they've been improving the past month I'm sure most of those infancy issues will be solved by summer.
❤️ and hoping to make astral way more performant with next update.