Show HN: Hacki – a Hacker News client made with Flutter (apps.apple.com) 6 points by livinglist 4y ago ↗ HN
[–] ab_testing 4y ago ↗ Is your app doing a get request on each story that shows on the page to pull in the page images and other assets ? [–] geoah 4y ago ↗ Octal on ios does the exact same thing and I’ve always wondered the same. I guess you could have a server side component where you pass the url, gets the thumbnail from metadata and caches it but not sure what it actually does. [–] livinglist 4y ago ↗ sadly yes, I don’t have much backend experience but definitely will explore other options in the future when possible.
[–] geoah 4y ago ↗ Octal on ios does the exact same thing and I’ve always wondered the same. I guess you could have a server side component where you pass the url, gets the thumbnail from metadata and caches it but not sure what it actually does.
[–] livinglist 4y ago ↗ sadly yes, I don’t have much backend experience but definitely will explore other options in the future when possible.
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