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  • If you ever do find yourself using a second account, I’ve spend a lot of time perfecting multi account on Blorp. Nice if you wanna use Lemmy and PieFed. I’m pretty confident that you won’t find a Lemmy/PieFed client out that that will switch accounts as seamlessly Blorp. For example, Voyager is one of the best apps out there, but it will close any open posts or communities when you switch accounts. With Blorp, you can switch accounts and continue exactly where you left off.








  • I think what’s happening is the app is refreshing in the background, and it’s not smart enough to tell the difference between initial launch and background refresh. I would either have to think of a solution to tell the difference, or have a toggle to disable automatic refresh entirely, so you always have to pull to refresh. But even I solved the refresh issue, I think it will still throw you to the top of the feed :/






  • Blorp dev here. Comment are virtualized. That means anything that isn’t currently in view can get unmounted to keep the comments page super snappy. For small posts, this is definitely overkill, but it means we can smoothly render posts with thousands of comments.

    I’ve kinda been waiting for someone to complain about this for me to fix it. What I’ll likely do is implement a custom search box that is compatible with the virtualized comments. I have a lot on my plate rn, but I’ll get this fixed as soon as I have time. Sorry for the inconvenience.



  • Incredible optimization! I don’t think Blorp will ever be able to deliver a web experience as low data as the official UI. However, if you download Blorp (or any of the other apps)  then you no longer have to send frontend code over the network. The only data that needs to be downloaded at runtime is API requests. Suddenly the network usage looks a lot more similar to the official UI (though I should test to confirm).