doesn't load fast enough to use as a chat app

[fplord]

every time you enter the page it has to fetch all the rooms which takes a few seconds. this is made worse by the fact that the game client iframe has to reload too, and blocks the main thread.

having 10+ seconds of friction every time someone wants to reply to a message is obviously unacceptable

not sure how exactly to solve this. webpages do lose their context a lot (do PWAs help here?) localStorage caching might help, but not sure how to unblock the main thread.

[billythedummy]

matrixClient.startClient() - 1.78s

It also seems like this function is being called multiple times, with all subsequent requests reaching the max timeout of 30s

Edit: nvm wrt last line this is because client architecture makes it call the sync endpoint in a loop

[billythedummy]

Looked into https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/kegan/sync-v3/proposals/3575-sync.md , seems new/experimental and wasn't just a plug and play - i think the user has to specify the pagination and how to control it and all that. Also, element client doesnt use it so gonna look at other places

[billythedummy]

matrix-org/synapse#7781

[fplord]

matrixClient.startClient() - 1.78s

It also seems like this function is being called multiple times, with all subsequent requests reaching the max timeout of 30s

Edit: nvm wrt last line this is because client architecture makes it call the sync endpoint in a loop

1.78s round trip response doesn't seem too bad? as long as first paint is instant (cache chats + make sure loading game client doesn't block)

[fplord]

1.78s round trip response doesn't seem too bad? as long as first paint is instant (cache chats + make sure loading game client doesn't block)

could consider loading in the iframe with javascript only after the text chats are painted

[fplord]

did some experiments today with @billythedummy just now

• (Android) iframe on firefox mobile is blocking, iframe on Chrome mobile is not blocking. With the iframe it takes about 6 seconds to load the messages, without it takes about 2 seconds
• Without the Godot iframe, Hydrogen Web / PWA and our code take aroudn the same amount of time to load
• Is the Godot game client running in debug mode? @f8122dac91

[f8122dac91]

@fplord Yeah current CI pipeline setup is exporting debug build to vercel. PR for deploying release build: igneous-labs/telegram-space#47

[fplord]

it loads pretty quickly now on raw, quite a nice experience