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>>robbie+(OP)
7 billion requests last month with the average user making 344 requests per day. Crazy numbers. Is there no way to optimise and cache some of this?

>>sudden+U12
What kind of thing are you thinking of caching? Because when I visit a page I expect to see the latest posts, with their current scoring.

>>Andrew+152
I don't know how Apollo works and that's why I lifted it more as an open question.

But my HN client cache the frontpage when you go through the articles so you have to manually press a button to refresh it once you want to see something new. Does the latest scoring from this minute actually matter? Similarly, there's little need to automatically refresh the comments if you go away from a thread and click back within one minute. Maybe you can implement another method for dealing with upvotes/downvotes so they don't require API requests.

It just seems crazy that the average person uses multiple hundreds of API requests per day.

>>sudden+g72
A Reddit engineer commented that Apollo uses 3x more API requests per user compared to other Reddit clients. There’s definitely room for optimization and I find Christian’s attitude off putting that his users just naturally “use more” API calls:

https://www.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/13wshdp/api_update...