Why? Its a realtime feed. Tapping the tab button shows more stuff, or if you’re at the top of the feed it loads in realtime.
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This is a UX challenge with the subscription-based protocol. When data is coming in at unpredictable times over a web socket there’s nothing for a pull-to refresh button to do.
It might be nice at startup though to have a visual indicator that the app is waiting for incoming data (more than the dot on tab items). Like the Damus icon at the top gently glowing or something like that.
I could have pull to refresh load in the queued posts. Posts are queued when you scroll down so that they don’t move the feed while you’re scrolling.
Hi Will. Have a good day once I get my zaps straightened out I’ll zap ya🙃
One thing I noticed when I look at a particular note and then push the back button, if newer posts have arrived it will push the original one that I was looking at down so I won’t know where I left off unless I scroll down and find it again
This 💯
💯 please, it’s frustrating trying to follow links in posts and going back to where you were.
Hmm this should only happen when you click a link at the top of your feed. Unless there’s another place this happens ?
I’ll record an example…
In this video, I scroll down to a linked note, click on the note, then click on the link, then when I go back, it takes me directly back to the timeline, but it’s updated in the background and the original note I came from is further down the timeline.
If most people are like me, may or may not be the case, they think pretty linearly. I came from my timeline to note a, I went to note b, and then went to note c, I would expect to go from note c, back to b, back to a, then go back to where I left off in the timeline.
If I get lost in that process, I would expect to hit the home button at the bottom - once to get me back to my timeline place - and I’d hit it again to take me to the top of the timeline where I can refresh and see the notes that are on deck.
Do others agree with that perspective?
This also happens when you are replying to a note, by the time you get done with the reply, the timeline has moved. And navigating in and out of a nostr report after searching, when I click on a link in the report, and then come back, it doesn’t come back to the nostr report note it goes back to the search. I’ll make a few more videos.
Here’s the nostReport example… the writing a note has been more difficult to capture, it happens when it takes a while to write a note and I don’t want to spam people anymore
Thanks to #[8] for the help!
Yes this. The back button doesn’t always take me back to where I was but takes me to the top.
IMO that would be a nice enhancement 👍
Mainly because it’s not clear that it’s real-time. A manual forced ‘fetch’ feels better. That way I know I have the latest posts.
Or maybe I just need to follow more plebs to see real-time in action…