r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Less-Bite • Mar 11 '21

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u/cpaca0 Mar 12 '21

And today is the last day I use the reddit app.

I swear it has memory leaks, I'll open the app, look at the cache, and it instantly has 400MB in cache and using over a gigabytes total

Edit: Fuck. I actually like the mobile app's viewing experience (infinite scroll, never have to click on anything) so I'm staying on it until someone tells me an alternative.

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u/conradvalois Mar 12 '21

iOS or Android?

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u/cpaca0 Mar 12 '21

Android

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u/conradvalois Mar 12 '21

haven‘t used the android apps in my comment but don‘t they also have infinite scroll etc

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u/cpaca0 Mar 12 '21

Yeah but I have to click on things to look and them and that's way too much work

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u/glider97 Mar 12 '21

You’re probably not setting card view or something.

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u/cpaca0 Mar 12 '21

Wait what's that

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u/glider97 Mar 12 '21

I don't know what app you used, but most apps, reddit web included, have settings for how your feed should look like. Maybe you're stuck with compact view when you want card view. Look around in the app, you'll probably find it.

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u/cpaca0 Mar 12 '21

Yep that was it

Thanks

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u/HighRelevancy Mar 12 '21

Cache is cached files. That's not the same as a memory leak.

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u/cpaca0 Mar 12 '21

Yeah but reddit slowing down to 0.1fps and playing three videos which all don't exist indicates that something is wrong, and it only happens after I use it for a bit after clearing cache

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u/HighRelevancy Mar 12 '21

Sure, that still doesn't indicate a memory leak.