I had the same behavior on the feed page -- when that page was working. All the screenshots on my feed would load, then right away the page would reload as I was about to click on a video. It never happened to me while watching a video ... but it's still very annoying.

As discussed with Kavin on IRC: the way Element Web does it seems good. It shows a small notification in the corner alerting the user to a new update. It offers an Update button, which reloads the web app, as well as Dismiss.

@opusforlife2 That is not the current behaviour on iPad OS (Chrome). Sometimes, not all ways, when I go to piped the page first loads. Then it automatically reloads ... and will continue to reload every few seconds or so. In other words the site is unusable when this happens. I have never noticed the notification button (I don't have my iPad handy), but the page just reloads on its own.

It doesn't seem like you read the comment fully? I'm talking about Element Web.

I was wondering why the first time every time I opened Piped after clearing cache and cookies (I had set this to automatically occur upon browser close), it would refresh after a few minutes, regardless of what I am doing (this often happens to me while watching a video, like just now, when it refreshed the page when I was 1 minute and 43 seconds into the video).

@opusforlife2 I agree, also Telegram and WhatsApp (not a WhatsApp user, but my family are) so something similar, where they offer a static overlay "Update Now" button to refresh (no option to dismiss).