🚀 Topics square now edge-cached — counts stay live | 4/23

Hey Pickful community,

The “CDN cache + live counts” recipe we’ve been leaning on for the home feed? It now powers the topics square (/topics) too.

🐢 What was slow

The topics page used to cache for a day. Create a new topic, and in the worst case it wouldn’t show up in the list for 24 hours. The “N posts” badge on each card was just as stale — an overnight snapshot.

⚡ What changed

• Page cache extended to one week — faster loads, served directly from Cloudflare’s global edge
• Create / delete / rename a topic, and we actively tell Cloudflare to purge the page — the change shows up within seconds
• Per-topic post counts are fetched live after the page loads, so they’re never out of date

In one line: caching makes it fast, purging keeps it fresh, and the personalize endpoint keeps the numbers honest.

💬 To the community

The topics square is going to be one of the faces of Pickful’s decentralized governance — the place where you can glance at what the community is discussing, find interesting threads, and meet people who think like you. So it can’t be slow, and it can’t be wrong.

This ships on Web, iOS, and Android simultaneously — no app update needed.

If you notice a topic count that stays frozen, or a new topic that takes a long time to appear, let us know.

Pickful team
April 23, 2026