Speed Improvements For Photos
The Photos Feature is pretty cool. I don't do much with my photos, and I'm so close to just switching to it as my primary photos app (Just use it as a backup right now). However, the very slow speed of the photos loading when scrolling through is just unusable. I don't know what exactly causes it to be slow, but my guess would be the encryption. Perhaps use a faster standard like Ente does. Thank you for your time!
Gburtech6
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Justin
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Being able to configure the size of local cache, or defaulting to looking for the photos first in a local directory before going to the network to retrieve them would speed this up immensely.
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Softwaerewolf
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A page of photo thumbnails on Android (9 photos) can take upwards of 30 seconds to load on a 1Gigabit connection. Absolutely unusable for anything other than glacier style tier-3 backup.
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Sea_Level
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Definitely slower than it should be on iOS. Leads to a poor initial user experience when users with large photo libraries try to use the solution.
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Alin Tomescu commented
The encryption should not even be that slow, unless Proton is making the grave mistake of RSA encrypting each photo instead of using a "hybrid" encryption mode that allows encrypting each photo with something fast like AES-GCM and then encrypting the AES key once under RSA.
This must be fixed.
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Baysen
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I second this. The thumbnail creation is insanely slow and seemingly one-threaded. Makes it impossible to scroll through and look for things.