Pages List: List doesn't consistently load on first try

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile-dev

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue through My Site > Home or My Site > Menu > Pages on the tested Android setup, then trace the Pages List loading path. Done means all published pages load consistently, or a "Fetching pages" message remains visible until loading completes, with refresh and navigation recovering when needed.

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Description

[Pri] Low [Type] Bug Posts + Pages
Expected behavior

Whenever I open the Pages List, it will load all my pages.
If the pages are not able to load immediately, I expect to see a "Fetching pages" message.

Actual behavior

Sometimes, no pages are loaded and I see "You haven't published any pages yet" notice. Sometimes, only a few pages are loaded out of many.

Steps to reproduce the behavior
  1. Restart the app
  2. Head into My Site > Home or My Site > Menu select "Pages".
  3. Note whether all your pages are displayed
  4. Try it again

I had no pages, or only a few pages, ~60% of the time, across probably 20 tries in 5 languages. (I noticed this when doing i18n smoke testing)
When a few pages had already loaded, waiting a few seconds generally allowed the rest to appear.
When no pages were loaded, I needed to pull-to-refresh. A few times, this didn't work and I needed to navigate away from and back to the pages list.
Occasionally, all my pages loaded, or I got the "Fetching pages" message as expected when loading.

This is from a site with ~20 published pages:
loadpages

Tested on Samsung Galaxy S21, Android 12, WPAndroid 19.9-rc-4
Dominant language
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