Building a cache-first dashboard — explicit fetch and a "closes-but-keeps-running" notice

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When we shipped a cross-site dashboard in v1.6.2 — a single view that shows plugin-update status across multiple WordPress sites — we hit a UX wall almost immediately. Opening the dashboard meant waiting 24.5 seconds, every time. And the wait got longer as more sites were added. A user put it bluntly: "It launches a heavy operation the moment I open it. I wasn't mentally prepared for that." This post walks through the slightly unusual async-UX combination we landed on for that page — cache-first display, explicit fetch, and a "closes-but-keeps-running" notice.

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