Silly little question - what is a Frontend cache

[doobes (Christopher Dubea)]

What, exactly, does this mean:

“You need to manually clear the frontend cache after updating.”

WTF is a frontend cache?

And how do I clear it?

thanks

chris

[Mats789]

How to "clear the frontend cache"

If it is the IOS App, you can follow these steps. But if it is the Android App, until this gets solved, you can use these instructions. Logging out and logging in again also clears the WebView cache but normally one doesn’t want to do that. Update for Android. It has been implemented in Android, so it should be available in the next release.

[doobes (Christopher Dubea)]

This appeared on my desktop in The Brave Browser

cheers

[Arh]

It means clear the cache in your browser. Cache is simply saved pictures files etc which allow Web pages to load quicker. Ctrl + F5 will do it. You may not have to do it every time but if you ever have anything strange happen in the ui it should be the first thing you do.

[elchininet]

There is a long thread about that topic

How to "clear the frontend cache"

Might be pretty obvious to some, but where do I find the setting to clear the front end cache? [Screenshot 2024-01-10 at 12.21.54]

If you are in a browser, it just means to clean your browser cache.

[Nick4 (Nick)]

Hi Chris, if still not clear have a look at this: "brave browser" clear cache at DuckDuckGo

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[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@doobes

WTF is a frontend cache?

Language, sir.

[finity]

there’s lots of possibilities for the WTF acronym.

They could have been asking “where’s the fridge?”.

lighten up.

[Nick4 (Nick)]

@finity

They could have been asking “where’s the fridge?”.

That doesn’t fit into that sentence and the subject is the frontend cache.
Using that abbreviation is against interpreted as against the COC and the OP is kindly reminded of it.

[doobes (Christopher Dubea)]

So which of the following did you think I meant?

Way Too Far
Why the Face?
Welcome to Fun
Who the Freak?
What The Freak
Will to Fight
Welcome to Family
What the FAQ?
What’s the Focus?
Why The Freak
What the Fist
Where the Freak
Water the Flowers
When They Fall
Words to Follow
What the Flip
What the Fish
What the French Toast?
Where’s the Fun
Where’s the Food
What’s This For?
Where’s the Food?
Well That’s Funny
Where’s the Fire?
Welcome to Florida
Work Time Fun
Went to France
What’s the Frequency?
What the Fudge
Where’s the Fridge?
We the Fools
Wipe the Floor
Win the Future
When The Freak
Where’s The Fish?
What’s the Formula
Wednesday Thursday Friday
What the February
World Tour Finals)
Well, That’s Fantastic
Why the Frown?
White Trash Family
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
Where’s the Faith
We Talk Funny
What the Frak?
What the Fruitcake
Who’s the Fool?
Where’s the Fries
Worse Than Failure
Wow, That’s Fun!
Way To Fail
Werewolf: the Forsaken
Wasn’t That Funny
Where’s the Fudge
Weapons Task Force
Wait Til Friday
What’s This Foolishness
Why the Failure
Who’s That Flying?
Welcome to Facebook
Wrestling Takedown Federation
Warcraft Text File
When’s the Funeral
Waking the Fallen
Whack the Flamingo
Wow, That’s Fantastic
Weapons Tactics Force
Well and Truly Freaked
Words That Follow
Witendofi
Weekly Top Five
Why These Finalists
Wait Till Fame

Just to conclude the conversation:

Frontend Cache means nothing whatsoever to the average computer user…

I’m a fairly sophisticated user and had no idea what it meant.

Thank you to the person whose suggested Ctrl-F5.

That was useful information.

[petro]

I thought it meant what the fuck

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@petro

what the fuck

Admins may bend COC in any way, no problem)

[petro]

Swearing isn’t against coc…

[finity]

thanks for clarifying that.

I read the COC again and I didn’t see anything in there either.

I guess it could be “sexualized language” but I didn’t think that’s what that means. I take that to be sexual harrassment type stuff.

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@finity

take that to be sexual harrassment type stuff.

Could be just a poor vocabulary manner. Especially with a “clown-y” post with list of definitions.

[doobes (Christopher Dubea)]

Geeze.

Didn’t mean to create a firestorm.

The Streisand effect is well and fully engaged on this one.

Thanks to @Nick4 and @Arh for helpful answers.

[Nick4 (Nick)]

@doobes

Geeze.

Didn’t mean to create a firestorm.

To be fair: you have only enforced it with that post about all the possible acronyms.
Also, I understand that you don’t know what frontend cache is: you could have opened my link to read about the meaning.

@doobes

Thanks to @Nick4 and @Arh for helpful answers.

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[doobes (Christopher Dubea)]

Final comment:

If @Ildar_Gabdullin had taken the opportunity to PM me about the topic, I would not have thought twice about it.

Instead, it was chosen to publicly “discipline” me, so I chose to respond in kind.

The insinuation that there was vulgarity involved in my post was his, not mine, and my response was just to highlight exactly that.

Let’s consider the topic closed.

[petro]

can we drop this please?