From be6e447c8960e0b74308137efa10b45d0763b922 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adam Soltys <asoltys@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:27:26 +0000
Subject: Switching feeds paints posts at once instead of a spinner while the
 relays answer.

The disk cache held four feeds, so with more chips than that (or one never
opened here) a switch opened on nothing. Now:
- up to twelve feeds on disk: the four read last keep a page of 30, the
  rest 5 seed posts (same 256 KB budget);
- once the feed on screen settles, every other feed with nothing on disk
  has its first posts fetched ahead, one small request each, every 15 min;
- a feed with nothing on disk borrows matching posts (its people, its
  topics) that open feeds already hold.

tools/feed-switch-seed-test.js: with 8 s relays, a fetched-ahead feed and a
never-opened topic feed both paint rows at once (fails on the old code).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01WMMwWYJkPQxLgfMsY7hWcU
---
 tools/feed-cache-test.js | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

(limited to 'tools/feed-cache-test.js')

diff --git a/tools/feed-cache-test.js b/tools/feed-cache-test.js
index 995e01a..3df9447 100644
--- a/tools/feed-cache-test.js
+++ b/tools/feed-cache-test.js
@@ -12,14 +12,28 @@ storage.setItem('wallet:funds', 'untouched');
 assert.equal(cache.read('following').length, 30);
 assert.equal(JSON.parse(storage.getItem('wallet:feedNotes')).notes.length, 30);
 for (let i = 0; i < 5; i++) cache.save('custom' + i, notes);
-assert.equal(cache.read('following').length, 0);
-assert.equal([...values.keys()].filter((k) => k.includes('feedNotes')).length, 4);
-cache.read('custom1');
-cache.save('custom5', notes);
-assert.equal(cache.read('custom2').length, 0);
+const stored = (id) => JSON.parse(storage.getItem(id === 'following' ? 'wallet:feedNotes' : 'wallet:feedNotes:' + id) || 'null');
+assert.equal(stored('following').notes.length, 5, 'a feed past the four most recent keeps seed posts');
+assert.equal(stored('custom4').notes.length, 30);
+assert.equal(cache.read('following').length, 5, 'and reads them back');
+for (let i = 5; i < 14; i++) cache.save('custom' + i, notes);
+assert.equal([...values.keys()].filter((k) => k.includes('feedNotes')).length, 12);
+assert.equal(stored('custom0'), null, 'the least recently read goes first');
+assert.equal(stored('custom3').notes.length, 5);
+cache.read('custom3'); cache.save('custom3', notes);
+assert.equal(stored('custom3').notes.length, 30, 'reopened, it gets a full page again');
+assert.equal(stored('custom10').notes.length, 5, 'and the oldest of the four drops to seed posts');
+// seeds warmed ahead never outrank or overwrite a feed that was read
+cache.seed('custom13', notes.slice(0, 2));
+assert.equal(stored('custom13').notes.length, 30);
+assert.equal(cache.has('warm'), false);
+cache.seed('warm', notes);
+assert.equal(cache.has('warm'), true);
+assert.equal(stored('warm').notes.length, 5);
+assert.equal(stored('custom13').notes.length, 30);
 cache.save('big', notes.map((e) => ({ ...e, content: 'x'.repeat(15000) })));
 assert([...values].filter(([k]) => k.includes('feedNotes')).reduce((n, [, v]) => n + v.length, 0) <= 256000);
 time += 8 * 86400_000;
 assert.equal(cache.read('big').length, 0);
 assert.equal(storage.getItem('wallet:funds'), 'untouched');
-console.log('✓ legacy caches shrink; 30 posts/feed, four feeds, byte budget, LRU and seven-day expiry enforced');
+console.log('✓ legacy caches shrink; 30 posts for the four most recent feeds, 5 seed posts for up to 12, byte budget, LRU and seven-day expiry enforced');
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