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Home shelves should not reshuffle on every visit to the home page #70

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opened 2026-08-18 06:00:07 +00:00 by logan · 0 comments
logan commented 2026-08-18 06:00:07 +00:00
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Every time I go back to the home page the "Never played" shelf has new items. It should only change when I refresh it manually or when the app starts fresh, so I can work through the list across a session while navigating around the app.

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  • backend/home's shelf queries are re-run on each load and several are randomised or unstable in order, so a revisit resamples.
  • On desktop the home view is a cached primary view (kept in the DOM, toggled with .view-hidden), so this is specifically about the refetch on activation, not a remount.
  • The related desktop request replaces the global "Shuffle suggestions" button with a per-shelf refresh — that becomes the manual "change it now" gesture this issue depends on.

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Resolve each shelf's contents once per app session (seeded so the query is reproducible), hold it in the service, and re-resolve only on an explicit refresh, on app start, or when the underlying data genuinely changes (a scan finishing, a play count changing enough to matter). Keep the existing rules: an empty shelf is omitted, and a shelf repeating the one above it is dropped — the duplicate guard must run against the held selection.

**Report** Every time I go back to the home page the "Never played" shelf has new items. It should only change when I refresh it manually or when the app starts fresh, so I can work through the list across a session while navigating around the app. **Findings** - `backend/home`'s shelf queries are re-run on each load and several are randomised or unstable in order, so a revisit resamples. - On desktop the home view is a **cached** primary view (kept in the DOM, toggled with `.view-hidden`), so this is specifically about the refetch on activation, not a remount. - The related desktop request replaces the global "Shuffle suggestions" button with a per-shelf refresh — that becomes the manual "change it now" gesture this issue depends on. **Direction** Resolve each shelf's contents once per app session (seeded so the query is reproducible), hold it in the service, and re-resolve only on an explicit refresh, on app start, or when the underlying data genuinely changes (a scan finishing, a play count changing enough to matter). Keep the existing rules: an empty shelf is omitted, and a shelf repeating the one above it is dropped — the duplicate guard must run against the *held* selection.
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#18 Desktop: replace the global "Shuffle suggestions" button with a per-shelf refresh
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