Random Refresh while reading articles

[mediaformat]

While reading longer articles, the content is replaced by a spinner, which never resolves.

Leaving the article and returning, the scroll position is lost.

iOS 17.4.1
Wallabag ios 7.2.3 build 319

[bourvill]

Hello, can you share the original link of your entry?

[mediaformat]

Sure, it happened with both of these:

• https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
• https://werd.io/2024/where-im-coming-from

[bourvill]

After multiple try to reproduce. it's never happened on my device. Can you record an example ?

[steveh]

I get a similar issue, the content is replaced by a white screen, and when loading again the scroll position is lost.

It happens on any long article that I’m reading normally and will typically first happen about 1/3rd through. It seems to become more frequent near the end but I’m not certain about that

[bourvill]

hi @steveh what is your iOS version and device ?

[steveh]

iPhone 14 Pro, v17.4.1. Wallabag v7.2.4 b319.
I just realised there is a newer iOS version so I'll try upgrade

[mediaformat]

After multiple try to reproduce. it's never happened on my device. Can you record an example ?

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While reading: https://techandsocialcohesion.substack.com/p/eight-pro-social-platforms-that-didnt

iOS: 17.5.1
Wallabag: 7.2.4 build 319

[dariokan82]

+1. Exact same issue.

iOS 17.5.1, iPhone 14Pro

[mediaformat]

Fun fact leaving the article as soon as the spinner appears, and returning to it leaves the scroll position intact. Gotta be quick tho!

[simonv3]

Can confirm this happens too iOS 17.6.1, iPhone SE.

App version says 7.4.0 build 319.

It happens pretty consistently, if there's a way to get you logs I'm happy to figure that out. Would love for this to work :P

[bourvill]

Never reproduce this issue 😫

Can you share one or more entry with this bug ?

[simonv3]

Sure,

It happened with this article https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
as well as this one https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/code/titles/29/chapters/8

I'm not sure if it's a "time reading" or "distance read" thing that causes it to trigger (i think it's time spent reading)

Some more details: I use the app.wallabag.it as my service provider

It takes somewhere between 30-45s for this to happen, every time, with that first article. I wonder if there's a refresh action that happens in the background that might be triggering this? Or if there's settings I could try turning on and off?

[ronaldscott]

This happens every single time I use the app to read a longer article, with no exceptions. It is trivially reproducible through normal, regular use of the app.

iOS latest at the time of this writing and iPhone 14 Pro Max.

[bourvill]

@ronaldscott No, it's not trivial, and it's not so easy to reproduce as you say. Every time I try to solve this problem, this problem does not occur.
Thank you for bringing constructive things to try to solve the problem and not simple banalities of your daily life

[simonv3]

@bourvill is there a way to see the logs in the app? Unfortunately I don't have an apple computer so I can't try building the app locally to check them.

[mediaformat]

Seems like some "lazy" process is triggering an app sync, I'm not sure what needs syncing in an in-progress article (beyond the position).

Anyhow, I agree that review local logs would help pinpoint the issue!

[bourvill]

Guy's! finally reproduced! working on fix!

[bourvill]

App is rolling out , test the latest version 7.5.0 and give me your feedback

[mediaformat]

This is still happening.

Version 7.5.0 build 319

[mediaformat]

Just a theory, but my guess is the app tries to periodically sync the article scroll position with the server.

Perhaps the app should only GET the position on opening an article. And only POST the scroll position to the server.

I can't think of any other reason the app should load anything while reading an article.

[bourvill]

Position is not sync with the server, is only on local.