Quick update on our project: We are getting very close to generalization where more instances of our community software will be available so you can run your cooking or parenting communities.

In the meantime, here's a site behavior which I'd love if someone jumped on:

Pull-to-refresh does not trigger if you do not "come to a halt" at the top of the page. #7886

benhalpern posted on May 15, 2020

Our app has really nice pleasant web pull-to-refresh functionality on most pages (not all, we don't want this behavior on some pages like chat, for example).

But the way it works, the user needs to be stopped at the top of the page and then initiate a pull up before it works like a charm.

I've hacked away at this a bit so I know it's possible to fix with some logical adjustments to how the whole thing works, but I think it needs a finer solution than whatever I'd hack together quickly.

Code is here:

https://github.com/thepracticaldev/dev.to/blob/d3dfc70f5a1ed94c781641235f21476e8ddf6773/app/assets/javascripts/lib/pulltorefresh.js

Hope somebody wants to give this a try

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Basically "pull-to-refresh" pretty much works, but it's not as smooth as a native in the case where you're continuously scrolling to the top and want to keep scrooling, but it could be.

This has bugged me for a while and I've looked into it enough that I know it can be fixed, it just needs a deep dive and some quality code.

P.S. The post title says "on DEV", but it's really "on yet-to-be-publicly-named opens-source forum software" once we release generalization v0."

Happy coding