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-rw-r--r--src/features/messages.js98
-rw-r--r--tools/feed-appetite-test.js159
2 files changed, 236 insertions, 21 deletions
diff --git a/src/features/messages.js b/src/features/messages.js
index ffdf0e3..a40f7d5 100644
--- a/src/features/messages.js
+++ b/src/features/messages.js
@@ -4855,6 +4855,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
// DOWN, and that must not count as having gone up to look at them.
const y = window.scrollY || 0, up = y < lastFeedY;
lastFeedY = y;
+ if (!ui.profilePk && Date.now() - lastInputAt < 2500) noteScrollTrail(y); // the reader's own travel (not a held-still insert)
// Scrolling recounts the pill: posts you've gone up past drop off it,
// and once none are left above you the notice is done.
if (!ui.profilePk && feed && feed.ahead?.size && up && !pillFrame) pillFrame = requestAnimationFrame(() => {
@@ -4867,7 +4868,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
else if (n !== feed.pillN) render();
});
if (!ui.profilePk && feed?.deferred?.length) admitFeed(feed.deferred, feed);
- if (window.innerHeight + window.scrollY < (document.documentElement.scrollHeight || 0) - (ui.profilePk ? 600 : Math.max(2400, window.innerHeight * 3))) return;
+ if (window.innerHeight + window.scrollY < (document.documentElement.scrollHeight || 0) - (ui.profilePk ? 600 : feedLead())) return;
if (ui.profilePk) loadOlderNotes(ui.profilePk).catch(() => {});
else loadOlderFeed().catch(() => {});
}, { passive: true });
@@ -7051,7 +7052,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
}
const result = mergeFeedWindow(c.notes, c.shown, add, {
rows: rows.map((r) => ({ id: r.getAttribute('data-key'), top: r.getBoundingClientRect().top, bottom: r.getBoundingClientRect().bottom })),
- height: typeof window === 'undefined' ? 0 : window.innerHeight, keep: FEED_KEEP, page: FEED_PAGE,
+ height: typeof window === 'undefined' ? 0 : window.innerHeight, keep: FEED_KEEP, page: FEED_PAGE * (1 + APPETITE_MAX), // room for the pass fetched ahead
holdHead: headBusy(),
});
c.deferred = result.deferred;
@@ -7506,36 +7507,91 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
if (!g || g.getBoundingClientRect().bottom < window.innerHeight * 3) (mediaMode === 'articles' ? crawlArticles : crawlMedia)(c).catch(() => {});
return;
}
+ fetchOlderAhead(c); // the relays, meanwhile, if what we hold beyond the rows is thin
if (c.win && c.win.bottom) return; // rows below are held back by the window, not by paging
const rows = document.querySelectorAll('.notes-feed > .row[data-key]');
const last = rows[rows.length - 1];
- if (last && last.getBoundingClientRect().bottom < window.innerHeight * 4) loadOlderFeed().catch(() => {});
+ if (last && last.getBoundingClientRect().bottom < feedLead()) loadOlderFeed().catch(() => {});
}, 100);
}
+ // ---- the reader's appetite -------------------------------------------
+ // How hungrily the feed is being scrolled: the screens travelled, by the
+ // reader's own hand, over the last ten seconds. A page of posts is read
+ // at a screen or two in that time; five screens in it is someone flying
+ // through, and the feed answers by paging more posts at a time and
+ // asking for them from further up — up to four pages and four times the
+ // lead at once. (Adam, 2026-10-16: "could we load posts faster if it
+ // seems like the user is scrolling a lot? … try always loading more
+ // posts and loading them sooner when we're further away from the
+ // bottom".) The trail counts only scrolls within a moment of an input,
+ // so a page held still under an insert above doesn't look like travel.
+ const APPETITE_MAX = 4, APPETITE_MS = 10_000, APPETITE_SCREENS = 5;
+ const scrollTrail = []; // [at, scrollY]
+ function noteScrollTrail(y) {
+ const now = Date.now();
+ scrollTrail.push([now, y]);
+ while (scrollTrail.length && now - scrollTrail[0][0] > APPETITE_MS) scrollTrail.shift();
+ }
+ function appetite() {
+ const now = Date.now();
+ while (scrollTrail.length && now - scrollTrail[0][0] > APPETITE_MS) scrollTrail.shift();
+ if (scrollTrail.length < 2) return 1;
+ const H = (typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.innerHeight) || 800;
+ const down = scrollTrail[scrollTrail.length - 1][1] - scrollTrail[0][1];
+ return Math.max(1, Math.min(APPETITE_MAX, 1 + Math.floor(down / (APPETITE_SCREENS * H))));
+ }
+ // how far above the foot of the feed the next page is asked for
+ const feedLead = () => Math.max(3000, ((typeof window !== 'undefined' && window.innerHeight) || 800) * 4) * appetite();
+ // The relays run AHEAD of the rows. The older page used to be asked for
+ // only once every post in hand was on screen, and shown only once the
+ // whole pass had answered — so the reader who reached the end of what we
+ // held waited a relay round trip, up to the five seconds the slowest
+ // relay in the pass is given. Now a pass for older posts starts as soon
+ // as what we hold beyond the shown rows thins to a page or two (more
+ // with the appetite), its rows warming at the door while the reader is
+ // still on the posts before them; the showing step takes from hand.
+ function fetchOlderAhead(c) {
+ if (c.fetching) return c.fetching;
+ if (c.end || c.booting || c.stopped || c.status !== 'ready') return null;
+ if (c.notes.length - c.shown >= FEED_PAGE * (1 + appetite())) return null;
+ const oldest = c.notes.at(-1);
+ if (!oldest || !feedHasQuery(feedDef(c.id))) { c.end = true; return null; }
+ c.fetching = (async () => {
+ let until = oldest.created_at - 1;
+ const limit = Math.min(100, FEED_LIMIT * appetite()); // a hungrier reader is fetched more per round trip
+ for (let tries = 0; tries < 3; tries++) {
+ c.sawAny = 0;
+ if (await feedPass({ until }, {}, c, FEED_KINDS, limit)) return true;
+ // nothing older at all (or no step back): that really is the end
+ if (!c.sawAny || !(c.seenBack <= until)) { c.end = true; return false; }
+ until = c.seenBack - 1;
+ }
+ return false;
+ })().catch(() => false).finally(() => {
+ c.fetching = null;
+ if (c === feed && !c.stopped) { scheduleRepaint(); prepareFeedAhead(c); }
+ });
+ return c.fetching;
+ }
async function loadOlderFeed() {
const c = feedNow();
if (c.booting || c.loadingMore || (c.shown >= c.notes.length && (c.end || c.status !== 'ready'))) return;
c.loadingMore = true;
if (c === feed) render(); // the footer says so while it happens
try {
- if (c.shown < c.notes.length) {
- const end = Math.min(c.shown + FEED_PAGE, c.notes.length);
- const boundary = c.notes[end - 1].id;
- await notesReady(c.notes.slice(c.shown, Math.min(end + FEED_PAGE, c.notes.length)), { parent: feedReplies(c) });
- c.shown = Math.max(c.shown, c.notes.findIndex((e) => e.id === boundary) + 1);
- return;
- }
- if (c.status !== 'ready' || c.end) return;
- const oldest = c.notes.at(-1);
- if (!oldest || !feedHasQuery(feedDef(c.id))) { c.end = true; return; }
- let until = oldest.created_at - 1;
- for (let tries = 0; tries < 3; tries++) {
- c.sawAny = 0;
- if (await feedPass({ until }, {}, c)) { c.shown = Math.min(c.shown + FEED_PAGE, c.notes.length); return; }
- // nothing older at all (or no step back): that really is the end
- if (!c.sawAny || !(c.seenBack <= until)) { c.end = true; return; }
- until = c.seenBack - 1;
+ fetchOlderAhead(c);
+ if (c.shown >= c.notes.length) {
+ // nothing in hand: the pass underway (started just now, if need be) brings the next page
+ if (!c.fetching) return;
+ await c.fetching;
+ if (c.shown >= c.notes.length) return;
}
+ const page = FEED_PAGE * appetite();
+ const end = Math.min(c.shown + page, c.notes.length);
+ const boundary = c.notes[end - 1].id;
+ await notesReady(c.notes.slice(c.shown, Math.min(end + page, c.notes.length)), { parent: feedReplies(c) });
+ c.shown = Math.max(c.shown, c.notes.findIndex((e) => e.id === boundary) + 1);
+ fetchOlderAhead(c); // and the relays, if that thinned what we hold
} finally {
c.loadingMore = false;
if (c === feed) render();
@@ -13376,7 +13432,7 @@ export function messagesFeature(ctx) {
? h('div', { class: 'small faint', style: 'text-align:center;padding:12px 0' }, t('feedEmpty'))
: mediaMode === 'articles' ? articleList(c)
: !listView() ? mediaGrid(c)
- : h('div', { class: 'card col notes-feed', style: 'gap:0', 'data-booting': c.booting ? '1' : undefined }, ...rows),
+ : h('div', { class: 'card col notes-feed', style: 'gap:0', 'data-booting': c.booting ? '1' : undefined, 'data-shown': c.shown, 'data-held': c.notes.length }, ...rows),
// The foot of the feed says what is happening down there: older
// posts on their way, or nothing older left to fetch. (Older pages
// prepare offscreen, so the line is mostly seen by a reader who
diff --git a/tools/feed-appetite-test.js b/tools/feed-appetite-test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b79a2a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/feed-appetite-test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+// The feed pages to the reader's appetite. Reading at an ordinary pace it
+// shows ten more posts at a time, and asks the relays for older ones while
+// a page or two is still in hand — never once the reader has run out. A
+// reader flying through (five screens in ten seconds, by their own hand)
+// gets bigger pages, from further above the foot of the feed; standing
+// still a while brings the ordinary page back. A page held still under an
+// insert above is not travel.
+// Run: bun tools/feed-appetite-test.js
+import puppeteer from './puppeteer.js';
+import { cacheKeyFor } from '../src/wallet.js';
+import { generateSecretKey, getPublicKey, finalizeEvent } from 'nostr-tools/pure';
+import { buildHtml } from '../build.js';
+const sleep = (ms) => new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, ms));
+let ok = true;
+const check = (n, c, d = '') => { console.log(` ${c ? '✓' : '✗'} ${n}${d ? ' — ' + d : ''}`); if (!c) ok = false; };
+
+const SK = generateSecretKey(), AUTHOR = getPublicKey(SK);
+const now = Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000);
+const post = (i) => finalizeEvent({ kind: 1, created_at: now - 60 * i, tags: [], content: 'post number ' + i + ' of the long timeline' }, SK);
+const cached = Array.from({ length: 60 }, (_, i) => post(i)); // in the feed cache
+const older = Array.from({ length: 300 }, (_, i) => post(60 + i)); // on the relays, for the asks
+const html = await buildHtml({ minify: true, pwa: false });
+const server = Bun.serve({ port: 0, fetch: (req) => {
+ const path = new URL(req.url).pathname;
+ if (path.startsWith('/punks')) return new Response(Bun.file('dist' + path));
+ return new Response(html, { headers: { 'content-type': 'text/html' } });
+} });
+
+const browser = await puppeteer.launch({ executablePath: '/usr/bin/google-chrome', headless: 'new', args: ['--no-sandbox'] });
+const page = await browser.newPage();
+// The relays, answered in the page: an ask for older posts (a filter with
+// `until` for the author) gets the thirty newest at or before it, after a
+// moment, then EOSE. Every ask is logged with the feed's state at that moment.
+await page.evaluateOnNewDocument((fx) => {
+ window.__asks = []; window.__steps = [];
+ window.__snap = () => { const f = document.querySelector('.notes-feed'); return { t: Date.now(), shown: +(f?.dataset.shown || 0), held: +(f?.dataset.held || 0), remaining: Math.round(document.documentElement.scrollHeight - window.scrollY - window.innerHeight) }; };
+ const Real = window.WebSocket;
+ const send1 = (ws, id, ev) => { if (ws.readyState === 1) ws.dispatchEvent(new MessageEvent('message', { data: JSON.stringify(['EVENT', id, ev]) })); };
+ const eose = (ws, id) => { if (ws.readyState === 1) ws.dispatchEvent(new MessageEvent('message', { data: JSON.stringify(['EOSE', id]) })); };
+ window.WebSocket = function (...a) {
+ const ws = new Real(...a);
+ const send = ws.send.bind(ws);
+ ws.send = (data) => {
+ try {
+ const m = JSON.parse(data);
+ if (m[0] === 'REQ') {
+ const f = m.slice(2).find((f) => f.until && (f.kinds || []).includes(1) && (f.authors || []).includes(fx.author));
+ if (f) {
+ if (!window.__asks.some((a) => a.until === f.until)) window.__asks.push({ ...window.__snap(), until: f.until, limit: f.limit || 0 });
+ const evs = fx.older.filter((e) => e.created_at <= f.until).slice(0, f.limit || 30);
+ setTimeout(() => { for (const ev of evs) send1(ws, m[1], ev); eose(ws, m[1]); }, 300);
+ return;
+ }
+ }
+ } catch {}
+ return send(data);
+ };
+ return ws;
+ };
+ window.WebSocket.prototype = Real.prototype;
+ Object.assign(window.WebSocket, Real);
+}, { author: AUTHOR, older });
+const errs = [];
+page.on('pageerror', (e) => errs.push(String(e)));
+const click = (t) => page.evaluate((x) => { const e = [...document.querySelectorAll('button')].find((n) => n.textContent.trim().toLowerCase().includes(x)); if (e) { e.click(); return true; } return false; }, t);
+const waitText = async (x, ms = 25000) => { for (let i = 0; i < ms / 250; i++) { if ((await page.evaluate(() => document.body.innerText)).toLowerCase().includes(x)) return true; await sleep(250); } return false; };
+const waitFor = async (fn, arg, ms = 10000, step = 100) => { for (let i = 0; i < ms / step; i++) { if (await page.evaluate(fn, arg)) return true; await sleep(step); } return false; };
+const snap = () => page.evaluate(() => window.__snap());
+const steps = () => page.evaluate(() => window.__steps);
+const asks = () => page.evaluate(() => window.__asks);
+// a scroll by the reader's own hand: an input stamp, then the page moves
+const handScroll = (dy) => page.evaluate((dy) => { window.dispatchEvent(new PointerEvent('pointerdown', { bubbles: true })); window.scrollBy({ top: dy, behavior: 'instant' }); }, dy);
+const H = 500;
+
+try {
+ await page.setViewport({ width: 390, height: H, hasTouch: true });
+ await page.goto(server.url.href, { waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+ await page.evaluate(() => localStorage.setItem('btc-wallet-network', 'regtest'));
+ await page.reload({ waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+ await sleep(400);
+ await click('create a new wallet'); await sleep(600);
+ await page.waitForSelector('.words .w .t');
+ const mn = (await page.$$eval('.words .w .t', (l) => l.map((e) => e.textContent.trim()))).join(' ');
+ await click('skip verification');
+ await waitText('receive', 20000);
+ const base = cacheKeyFor(mn + '\n');
+ await page.evaluate(([k, pk, ns]) => {
+ localStorage.setItem(k + ':follows', JSON.stringify({ tags: [['p', pk]], c: '', at: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) }));
+ localStorage.setItem(k + ':feedNotes', JSON.stringify(ns));
+ localStorage.setItem(k + ':profiles', JSON.stringify({ [pk]: { name: 'Long Timeline', t: Date.now() } }));
+ localStorage.setItem('btc-wallet-feed:' + k, 'following');
+ }, [base, AUTHOR, cached]);
+ await page.reload({ waitUntil: 'domcontentloaded' });
+ await waitText('receive', 20000);
+ await page.evaluate(() => document.querySelector('.app-nav-button[aria-label="Feed"]').click());
+ check('the cached posts are in the feed', await waitFor(() => document.querySelectorAll('.notes-feed [data-key]').length >= 5, null, 20000));
+ // every change of the page count, with the feed's state at that moment
+ await page.evaluate(() => {
+ const f = document.querySelector('.notes-feed');
+ let last = +f.dataset.shown;
+ new MutationObserver(() => { const n = +(document.querySelector('.notes-feed')?.dataset.shown || 0); if (n !== last) { window.__steps.push({ ...window.__snap(), from: last }); last = n; } })
+ .observe(document.querySelector('#app') || document.body, { attributes: true, subtree: true, attributeFilter: ['data-shown'] });
+ });
+ const s0 = await snap();
+ check('it opens on a page of ten, with the cached posts in hand', s0.shown === 10 && s0.held >= 30, JSON.stringify(s0)); // (the feed cache keeps thirty)
+
+ console.log('\n[reading at an ordinary pace]');
+ // a few posts every so often, no hand on it (the browser's own scroll: the
+ // trail counts only travel within a moment of an input)
+ for (let i = 0; i < 60; i++) {
+ await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollBy({ top: 300, behavior: 'instant' }));
+ await sleep(600);
+ const s = await snap();
+ if (s.shown >= 60) break;
+ }
+ await waitFor(() => +(document.querySelector('.notes-feed')?.dataset.shown || 0) >= 60, null, 8000);
+ const slow = await steps();
+ check('pages of ten', slow.length >= 3 && slow.every((s) => s.shown - s.from <= 10), slow.map((s) => s.from + '→' + s.shown).join(' '));
+ const a = await asks();
+ check('the relays were asked for older posts while posts were still in hand', a.length >= 1 && a[0].shown < a[0].held, JSON.stringify(a[0]));
+ const at60 = slow.find((s) => s.shown >= 60);
+ check('…so reaching the end of what was held found more already there', !!at60 && at60.held > at60.shown, JSON.stringify(at60));
+ check('the ordinary pace never asked for more than a page at a time', slow.every((s) => s.shown - s.from <= 10));
+
+ console.log('\n[flying through]');
+ await sleep(10_500); // the trail forgets the slow spell
+ await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollTo({ top: 0, behavior: 'instant' })); await sleep(600);
+ const before = await steps();
+ const sB = await snap();
+ // eleven screens in half a second, by hand; a breath; eleven more
+ for (let i = 0; i < 11; i++) { await handScroll(H); await sleep(45); }
+ await sleep(1500);
+ for (let i = 0; i < 11; i++) { await handScroll(H); await sleep(45); }
+ await waitFor((n) => window.__steps.length > n && window.__steps.slice(n).some((s) => s.shown - s.from >= 30), before.length, 6000);
+ await sleep(1500);
+ const fast = (await steps()).slice(before.length);
+ const big = fast.find((s) => s.shown - s.from >= 20);
+ check('a bigger page at once', !!big, fast.map((s) => s.from + '→' + s.shown).join(' ') || 'no page');
+ // (a page begun mid-flight is sized to the screens flown so far; the ones after are the full three)
+ check('…growing to three pages\' worth', fast.some((s) => s.shown - s.from >= 30), fast.map((s) => s.shown - s.from).join(' '));
+ check('…asked for from further above the foot than the ordinary lead', !!big && big.remaining > Math.max(3000, 4 * H), big ? big.remaining + ' px left below' : '');
+ const a2 = (await asks()).slice(a.length);
+ check('…and the relays asked for more per round trip', a2.some((x) => x.limit >= 60), a2.map((x) => x.limit).join(' ') || 'no ask');
+
+ console.log('\n[standing still again]');
+ await sleep(10_500);
+ const before3 = await steps();
+ for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
+ await page.evaluate(() => window.scrollBy({ top: 300, behavior: 'instant' }));
+ await sleep(600);
+ if ((await steps()).length > before3.length) break;
+ }
+ await sleep(500);
+ const calm = (await steps()).slice(before3.length);
+ check('the ordinary page is back', calm.length >= 1 && calm.every((s) => s.shown - s.from <= 10), calm.map((s) => s.from + '→' + s.shown).join(' ') || 'no page');
+ check('no page errors', errs.length === 0, errs.slice(0, 2).join(' | '));
+} catch (e) { console.error(e); ok = false; } finally { await browser.close(); server.stop(true); }
+console.log(ok ? '\n✅ the feed pages to the reader\'s appetite' : '\n❌ failed');
+process.exit(ok ? 0 : 1);