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

  1. Long hold the Liftoff icon and select App Info
  2. Select Storage and Cache
  3. Press Clear Cache

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

3 points

9Gb for October

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

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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NINE GIGS??!!

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I have Android 7, which doesn’t have this feature … do I need to clear the cache too? If so, does that mean I have to reinstall the app?

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If you go into settings->applications->liftoff you should see it in there. Cache clearing has been around as long as I can remember

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Thanks, I found it now, I was looking under the wrong part of the app’s settings :-/

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Cache clearing was a thing in 7

Settings -> Apps -> LiftOff -> Storage -> clear cache.

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Thank you, I was looking at the wrong bit where it said permissions/storage. Turns out I had just shy of 8Gb there!

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I just love announcements with a meme 😂, makes my day 😂.

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3 points

3.48 – less than I expected honestly.

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Thanks doe the reminder, didn’t know about this! I had over 5 gig.

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