@shepgo Our app loads new posts in really fast. On our server it can load 2000+ posts in a few seconds. But it is possible busier servers like mastodon.social will slow the rate/number at which you can get new posts down which would make it take much longer. We will have to make improvements if that is the case.
@ivory Before I subscribed to Ivory one thing I liked about apps like (the now unsupported) Metatext was an instantaneous jump to the most recent posts, with a divider-notice down a few dozen posts at the point between the newest posts and the previous refresh, with a button to load the next-oldest posts.