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Discover and Search

• Genres left out: a genre an addon lists but returns nothing for twice in a row (MediaFusion's Live TV offers every TV genre it knows) is left out of the genre list for a day. Once isn't enough, since a busy addon can answer nothing now and then.
• Genre names an addon took from a web page's title are shown without the site's ending (Wit Studio, not Wit Studio - Companies - MyAnimeList.net); the addon still gets the name it listed.
• Long catalogs: however long the catalog (a MediaFusion Live TV has ~16,000 channels), at most 600 cards are on the page. Scrolling on drops rows at the top, scrolling back rebuilds them from what's loaded, and the remote moves between cards by their place in the grid, so it stays quick.
• Reopening Discover shows it as you left it, unless the addons changed meanwhile (one added, removed or refreshed, its link changed, a playlist turned on or off): then it shows the current catalogs.
• Empty answers: some addons answer an empty list when they fail (YouTubio does). A catalog or search that had titles earlier this session is asked once more after 2 seconds; if it's still empty, the titles from earlier come back, marked from earlier: the addon sent nothing just now (in Discover and on Search rows).
• Search inside Discover for a catalog that can't search uses the same addon's search catalog for that type (for Cinemeta's Popular, its movie search).
• Search rows are named like their Home feeds ("Library · TorBox · AIOStreams"); a catalog just called "Search" goes by its type and addon. A search waits up to 25 seconds for an addon and a catalog page 12 (longer with Wait for addons).
• People in Discover come 20 at a time as you scroll; each card has their photo and department (Acting, Directing…), and the strip above names what they're known for. Browse's titles open through their IMDb id, like Cast & more's.