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Lemmy Devs - Why do the upvote and downvote numbers for a post change in front of my eyes when viewing a post? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Buggy looking behaviour observed, when I view a post on another instance or make a post on another instance then go back to viewing it, in front of my eyes, I can see massive disparities in the amount of upvotes and downvotes. Talking a post showing 600 upvotes then a few seconds later, 5 upvotes, then 40 etc

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah this happened on some reddit clients as well it's very interesting

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Wanted to point that out, was the usual experience for me on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

On Reddit it was deliberate. That way bot users had a more difficult time to tell if their vote got counted (as they try to circumvent bot blocking and do vote brigading).

Here on Lemmy it's probably just a bug due to high server load.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I think it's a federation issue. Maybe it first shows local count and then gets updated with federation counts from other servers?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've only seen this when I have multiple tabs open. The updates are coming in over web sockets and i think it gets confused when you have two clients for the same user session

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am seeing in the issue tracker that v0.18 is going to migrate away from using websockets, which should resolve the issue. Not sure when the devs are planning to release that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

One of the main devs said in the lemmy instance admin chat that they are planning on releasing it next week.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've noticed the same, certainly seems like a bug.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I heard somewhere that it's a bug, but the massive server load on the bigger instances probably doesn't help either