Entering Channels walked thirteen 100-row pages of the all-channels
listing (1237 rows on this instance, most of them federated follows)
and re-sorted the rows after every page; the signed-in user's own row
only appeared at page 12, which read as "loading one channel after
another" and never kept icons visible above the fold.
The local video listing already carries what the cards show: paging its
few pages yields exact per-channel video/play counts, covers, channel
avatars and the owner accounts for the row headers — no per-channel
requests. The all-channels listing now runs behind it as a background
metadata refinement (banners, exact subscriber counts, zero-video local
channels, followed platforms) and rebuilds rows only when a group
actually changes, so the visible rows don't churn. Re-entering the
screen within five minutes repaints the kept rows untouched.
Closes#13
Jeena
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