Comment by slazer2au@lemmy.world on Reminder to clear your Liftoff cache

It’s that time again Lemmings.

Don’t forget to clear your Liftoff cache. Liftoff currently doesn not have a auto clear cache feature.

For those who don’t know how, Android instructions are below

Long hold the Liftoff icon and select App Info
Select Storage and Cache
Press Clear Cache

Feel free to share your cache size and not compare our addictions.

What a dogshit implementation - this is egregious enough that the app should be pulled/banned until this is patched.

Mate, the official Reddit App used to do the same shit until i think 2019, calm down. Cache clearing is really not that big of a deal

So long as you know to do it as your phone’s storage is gobbled up at an alarming rate.

Most of us are here because we think reddit is shit - that’s not your best point.

If you want manual cache clearing to be gone, you can always do a pull request on the repo, the app is still in beta, it is not in fact officially finished. Don’t expect a work in progress to be a completed product

So if the app fills my phone’s storage, and I don’t know why because I don’t know how to code, and didn’t know this was an issue? This doesn’t stop the app working properly - it stops your phone working properly pretty quickly.

If it’s in beta and affecting people’s phone function, maybe that beta needs to be a little tighter than just grabbing the app from the play store without any warning.

Exactly why I mentioned the official Reddit app at first. Also, filling up your cache and not properly clearing it is a common thing that happens across apps. So common that the button for manual clearing is part of the first things you see when opening app details.

If you own a phone which is not considered to be the “standard”, chances are high a lot more than just this app is not clearing their cache properly. I own such a non-standard phone, and let me tell you, regularly clearing the cache of Whatsapp, Discord and even Youtube are simply things I do every week.

Oh calm down. Its still in development. If one minor issue like manual cache clearing is such a big deal, open an issue on the github page or just fork it and fix it yourself. It’s a FOSS app still in active development, the unfortunate cost of living on the cutting edge is that sometimes you get shoved face first through a tomato.

My background is as a product manager for a digital platform, not a developer. I’m not the guy to fix this issue, but I’m pretty comfy it’s a meaningful issue.

While I applaud the FOSS effort (I wasn’t aware), I’m not going to sit on the sidelines clapping as people’s faces are shoved through tomatoes. If this is worthy of a regular reminder at risk of filling your phone, it warrants an urgent fix that appears to be taking time.

Here’s hoping it gets fixed quickly though.

Genuine question. Is it still in active development? The last release was three months ago, the last commit on GitHub was in August and no posts from the team in two months.

Why? If someone knows the issue, they can choose they want to use the app anyway, or delete it. If the app is pulled, they don’t really have that option.

This is true (though they’d need to v know about the issue and how to fix it). I just hope the app cache is cleared when they uninstall it (though it’d be an OS issue if it didn’t.

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