23-Sep-2026 — show an album's first photos before the rest of it has loaded ref #99

build 965 — commit 75e6a92

What's new

Home page carousels were waiting for every photo in the album before they appeared, so a large album made the slides the last thing on the page. Albums now load the first twenty photos first, so the carousel can show at once, then fill in the rest in the background without jumping back to the first slide. Walk links on those photos are resolved in one small request rather than a separate lookup for each photo.

At a glance

• A carousel appears as soon as the first photos are ready
• The rest of the album loads in the background and does not reset the current slide
• Small albums finish in that first request
• Walk addresses for photos are fetched together, not one walk at a time