A community for the mobile app Connect for Lemmy.
I've enjoyed using Connect but I've got no clue how it got this big.
Even with this I think it's the best lemmy client I tried eternity for a while there and I'm now back on Connect.
Would be nice if there was a cache limit though I think 1 maybe 2 gb at most. Only other thing I miss is the biometric lock when opening I like that.
Yeah I had 7gb cache, not crazy huge like OP but would be nice to not have to do this manually
I've posted about it before, but I think the app should have a No-Thumbnail/No-Predownload option like RiF had. Most of the data it uses up I never make use of. It's a big waste.
No thumbnail and pre download as an option while on data was awesome with RiF. I'm on a 2 GB data plan on my phone so every little bit counts.
for me it sits at a whopping 102gb of cache. interestingly, i only used ~85gb total of my phones storage. deleting the whole cache just cleared up 10gb on the phone storage, so there is some heavy compression happening.
Woah. 72 GB for me
I just checked and my cache was over 5GB. I agree that cache wiping should occur once in a while. Oh well, doing it manually worked well enough.
I've never cleared mine and just checked it, 1.04gb. I use the app an embarrassing amount, so I wonder if there's one specific thing that takes up a bunch of space.
20 GB here. I estimate it took 2-3 months to get there.
How long have you been using it?
A little over a year now. I switched over to Lemmy when the API stuff was happening on Reddit, but was on a different app for the first month or two.
Apps have to download the thumbnails and whatever you actually click on.
Though that is a shitload.
Get SDMaid. Even the free version makes cleanup a lot easier.
It's standard practice to cache images when displaying, as an image viewed once is likely to be viewed again, and then it's good to save on the data and latency by loading it from disk (or even memory).
However, it's also standard practice to have an upper size boundary on this cache and to implement an eviction mechanism for the cache once it has reached its capacity.
This is probably a case of misconfiguration or something overlooked during implementation.
SDMaid actually open source (GPLv3) now!
The dev rebuilt the app for modern Android and made it open source
I think the app needs to have a regular cash wipe build in, it causes Crashes for me.