All the tabs with Piped open refresh automatically

[mojo-jojo-7]

Official Instance

• The bug is reproducable on the official hosted instance or is API related.

Describe the bug

All the tabs with Piped open refresh randomly by themselves. I tried to understand when this happens, but could not find any pattern. It even happens while watching a video.

To Reproduce

Not sure how to reproduce this when wanted. I guess you just have to catch it when it happens

Expected behavior

No automatic refreshes

Logs/Errors

None

Browser, and OS with Version.

Firefox 108.0.x on Windows 10

Additional context

I'm using https://piped.kavin.rocks and it happens almost everyday. I did not observe this behavior on the official instance, but it's possible I did not use it enough to catch it happening. Perhaps it's some kind of push from the server due to an update?

[goodness-from-me]

It usually happens whenever there is an update to frontend, eg new commit was pushed to master branch and CD published a new version.

[mojo-jojo-7]

Is there a way to stop it from happening? Because it can get annoying when it happens in the middle of watching a video

[Bnyro]

I somewhat doubt that's the reason, the frontend only consists of static files that are downloaded from the server once and then run on your browser. When there's an update/new commit to the frontend there's nothing that tells the browser to refresh the page as those files are only statically served.

[AlyoshaVasilieva]

Enable "Store Watch History" to resume your progress in the video after the forced refresh after an update.

When there's an update/new commit to the frontend there's nothing that tells the browser to refresh the page as those files are only statically served.

If you go to an instance after a few days of not using it, it doesn't load then refresh the page after a few seconds for you? This is reproducible for me on every instance. Also, if I manually update my private instance (build, pull, down, up), including frontend, and I visit it it will always force a refresh for me.

[Bnyro]

Duplicate of #1199 apparently