v3.0.0-dev1 - Beta is Out

[IRHM]

Hi everyone. Watcharr v3 has been in the oven on and off for a very long time now, but all the improvements are coming together nicely and just today have been built into the next beta release.

You can try the current beta on the demo site: https://beta.watcharr.app/

Or alternatively, you can test on your own with the image (backup!!): https://github.com/sbondCo/Watcharr/pkgs/container/watcharr/711859593?tag=dev

There are a few small bugs that I have found on the beta site and will start working towards getting fixed before the main release comes out (mainly the default filter 'multi' doesn't work when doing a search on the beta site, you have to manually click a filter like 'movie', etc).

There's not a full changelog because the updates go back about 9 months and I haven't been keeping track ;(, but the main changes:

• The server has been restructured fully.
• All watched data is now paginated with infinite loading (should be big performance improvements for users with lots of data).
• Sorting and filtering is now done server side.
• All data given to the client is packaged into a new data structure.
• The movie/tv/game pages have had a slight redesign.
• Discover page has had a big overhaul.
• Searching is now combined into one endpoint on the server, so the client code has been massively simplified.
• A lot of duplicate styling being bundled in our built files (causing the need for more styles to be downloaded by the client) has been removed.

The new ui for content pages:

If you have the time to test, I'd be very appreciative! It would be a big help towards making sure the final release is perfect for all of you.

Thanks!
IRHM

[Bnyro]

Great update, thank you for taking all these efforts!

The pagination definitely makes a big difference - I started to come to a point where there's notable delay when loading all the movies from the API, so this will definitely be a life-changer :)