Thicket / OpenSeed work continues as I prepare to release one of the largest updates thus far. Though for those that use the application and those that want to give it a try you will still need to wait a little longer.
After some consideration, and a little giggery pokery on my part, OpenSeed now works with SteemConnect to sign transactions when fellow STEEM users want to interact with the block chain. Do to the hybrid "dual citizen" accounts those without STEEM accounts will still be able to Like and Comment on the content within Thicket, but wont be able to partake in the rewards steemians enjoy.
Note: One of the hold ups on getting a new version out is building a better login interface to let current steemians create a OpenSeed account via their SteemAccount and automatically link the accounts.
Exciting I know. With the interface becoming more feature rich and the data sources becoming more and more demanding Thicket has adopted a more front loading approach to data sources. Even if this causes some delay on load (which will be mitigated before release) it will allow for richer search, and faster load times within the program. It also means that once the data has been cached there is no reason to connect to the server to ask for new data. Though this doesn't mean we have "offline" support yet, its closer than it was in the current version.
Below are a few of the interfaces that have been improved because of the caching change.
One of those richer experiences is the ability to view "All Artists" and the ability to get to their music from this screen near instantly.
Similar to all artists, All music is a complete list of the files cached by the loading scripts.
That ends the obvious, the less obvious additions have been the plethora of bugs that have been discovered and squashed as well as some memory management fixes. Currently the app runs at around 125MB of ram on my system when idle and around 180MB when playing.
The next few tasks will require the rewrite of several older libraries in OpenSeed, mainly for chat and developer/app functions. Which I've been avoiding because of the sheer amount of time.
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