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How to deal with / Update Smarty Templates

@Friendica Developers @Friendica Support I am sure someone can solve my problem / ignorance on the following issue within a second after I fought on it for hours:

I changed a smarty template but what ever I do these changes are not reflected on the frontend. I read that Friendica "precompiles" those templates, but I have no clue when and how this is being done?

Anyone? :-)
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Michael Vogel friendica (via ActivityPub)
Possibly you changed the wrong template. Check if the same template is also present in the theme folder.
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Ah! ... This might be THE hint <3
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Yeah, that was the problem, I only changed the template in templates/view. Thank you very much. But now I wonder: Since I assume that the frontend always uses on of the themes, where are the templates in templates/view actually used?
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Michael Vogel friendica (via ActivityPub)
When there is no corresponding template in the theme folder, then the default one is used.
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Thank you both for clarification. :-)
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One more question: When I add change a template for a specific theme, shouldn't I also do it for the other themes?
And if yes, how would I best check their appearance, especially for the default templates?
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