I'm currently working on making Friendica a "single page application", which means that the page load is much smoother since the page isn't cleared anymore but the content is replaced in the background.

It already works fine (you can already enable it if you are on a recent develop branch). But now there are some questions. For example we should handle the case when a request took longer than expected. I want to show some messages. By now I thould about messages after 10 seconds, 30 seconds and a minute:

  • 10 seconds: "This is taking longer than expected, please be patient"
  • 30 seconds: "We're almost there, please wait a little longer"
  • 60 seconds: "It shouldn't be much longer now"

Question are:

  • What do you think?
  • Are these good messages?
  • Should we spice it up by writing these messages in a more funny way? (Like "Flaxy O'Hare needs some more seconds to fetch your data")
  • Are the time levels okay?

And of course we could also create some dozen messages that would shuffle through my random.

What is your opinion?