I’ve enjoyed using Connect but I’ve got no clue how it got this big.
I’ve never cleared mine and just checked it, 1.04gb. I use the app an embarrassing amount, so I wonder if there’s one specific thing that takes up a bunch of space.
Yeah, mine was 1.09 and I don’t think I’ve cleared it ever either
Woah. 72 GB for me
I’ve posted about it before, but I think the app should have a No-Thumbnail/No-Predownload option like RiF had. Most of the data it uses up I never make use of. It’s a big waste.
No thumbnail and pre download as an option while on data was awesome with RiF. I’m on a 2 GB data plan on my phone so every little bit counts.
Woah, what the heck. I just checked mine and im sitting on 27.5 gb of cache. My huband was sitting on 16gb.
If anyone is curious, my husband and I never manually cleared the cache for Connect. When we’re done using the app we both normally just press the phone home button, leaving Connect listed in the active apps drawer, and then clear it later on in the day (this is probably whats adding to the cache).
As annoying as it is to have 30gb of cache, I still wouldnt switch to a different app. The ability to block users, communities, and entire instances is just too good to give up.
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I just checked and my cache was over 5GB. I agree that cache wiping should occur once in a while. Oh well, doing it manually worked well enough.
Mines up to 20gb. Searched the settings the other day to set cache size but couldn’t find anything.
Apps have to download the thumbnails and whatever you actually click on.
Though that is a shitload.
Get SDMaid. Even the free version makes cleanup a lot easier.
SDMaid actually open source (GPLv3) now!
The dev rebuilt the app for modern Android and made it open source
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It’s standard practice to cache images when displaying, as an image viewed once is likely to be viewed again, and then it’s good to save on the data and latency by loading it from disk (or even memory).
However, it’s also standard practice to have an upper size boundary on this cache and to implement an eviction mechanism for the cache once it has reached its capacity.
This is probably a case of misconfiguration or something overlooked during implementation.
How long have you been using it?
A little over a year now. I switched over to Lemmy when the API stuff was happening on Reddit, but was on a different app for the first month or two.
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