It seems that the issue has worsened. When clicking on the sidebar, the entire sidebar disappears and everything reloads, even if there are no queries or anything similar that need to be loaded.
thanks! I'm able to reproduce it on our side now. Will keep you posted about a fix
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Hi Tess,
I understand there are many other important topics at play, but I was wondering if there's any update on this matter? My end-users are finding the Retool environment to be more like individual pages rather than a cohesive application, as the menu and application reload each time without the menu remaining visible, for example. I'm hopeful there might be a straightforward solution, although I know in coding things are rarely that simple! 
It's still being investigated 
Will keep this thread posted if I hear anything new!
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Hi everyone,
Chiming in to say I've been having this blink issue with link clicks in my app as well. I've been watching this thread for updates but didn't see any for a while and happened on a solution yesterday. I don't think this will apply to everyone since the public apps shared previously in this thread don't include URL query strings. But I'm sharing in case it will help anyone else or debug the issue that's causing this.
We only see this blinking behavior when navigating to and from a particular app. My apps make use of both header and sidebar, so I thought these were causing the issue similar to others in this thread. However, I couldn't reproduce the blink in new blank apps with+without header module or sidebar. No combination I set up produced the blink when navigating.
The particular app which always blinks uses a URL query string to pass data. By adding a parameter to my test apps when navigating I was able to reproduce the blink. Now that I swapped our usage of query parameter for localStorage the blink has disappeared from our app.
Here are my basic test apps. You can see the blink when navigating from an app without a query parameter to an app with a parameter, and vice versa. Query param > query param navigation and non > non navigation doesn't cause the blink.
- Blink Test 1.json (7.4 KB)
- Blink Test 2.json (5.9 KB)
I'm using Retool Cloud V3.50.0-a6ac5e6 (Build 170246)
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Thanks for this detailed report, @benp! I'll reach out if we ship a fix for this specific url param issue