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I cannot put into words how profoundly stupid this "feature" is. AOL and Geocities pages were genuinely more user friendly. Whoever added it, refreshed the page and said "yeah, this works well" and left it in should be fired! ...out of a cannon and into the Sun!

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, keep in mind, Lemmy is an incredibly young platform. It's still kinda buggy and it looks like they got caught a little bit flatfooted (which is fair, who would have considered that Spez was this much of an idiot prior to it happening).

It's likely that the project has a number of bugs that will have to be ironed out now that they're rolling at a decently sized scale, and this is one of them. Things will likely get patched up fairly quickly, but it still requires dev time.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I think we need to make the auto-updating feature opt-in. No sense in designing a software that DDOSes itself.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

How young is it? I suppose I could look that up.

Look I just wanted to comment on your name okay? <3 Shin Chan!

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's already a pull request to fix this, it's being merged in v18

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

do you have a link? i don't see it in open PRs and didn't notice it looking through a bunch of the recent merges

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would assume that this would also reduce load on the lemmy servers.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It should, since the clients wouldn't have to constantly ping and fetch new posts from the server, but only do so on demand.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It should, since the clients wouldn't have to constant ping and fetch new posts from the server, but only do so on demand.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

@51

@Brainsick

Screenshot it before it moves, that way you can read it in your gallery without interruptions

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Op can't read Matrix scroll

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

It's a bug, will be fixed soon.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I noticed it too. As a new (Less than a few hours old as of this comment) user, this is a hell of an introduction to the Fediverse for me.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

I tried clicking on this post, by the feed reshuffled before I could.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't with this...

I was getting ready to reply and it literally timed out on me! Lol

Also, Futurama!

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

Happy someone caught the reference!

Also, if you are impatient like I am, consider giving kbin.social a try. It doesn't seem to have the issues that lemmy does, but still has all the same content! (as far as I can tell, anyway)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

The app has its own issues. Every time I upvote or comment I get a timeout error.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jerboa for Android

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

I’ve tried mlem for ios but it doesn’t seem to load properly for me.

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

I've tried Mlem and Memmy and both seem to have a single fixed "Hot" feed that has not updated since the last time the apps updated. It's still showing me some startrek post from two days ago, as well as a bunch of posts from beehaw despite it being defederated. Active sorting has this problem of constantly shifting. Going to specific communities and sorting by "Hot" there seems to be the most tolerable way to browse, but only Memmy can even do that. It's rough but hopefully these things will get pretty good pretty fast. I wish kbin had an app but for now the webUI is actually pretty usable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I believe that's a Lemmy bug requiring an instance restart

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

I use the Memmy beta app. Dude is putting good work on it the past week

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I didn't encounter these issues while using another instance but lemmy.world.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I believe it's not something you can avoid at the moment. I thought I read something about this being fixed in the next update for the web app, but I don't know where I saw it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is why I'm using kbin right now.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Found this frustrating too,

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I started using the app for lemmy because of this. The app is really nice!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Websockets for when Lemmy was relatively empty, so an auto update would be one every minute rather than a torrent.

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

I believe it's not something you can avoid at the moment. I thought I read something about this being fixed in the next update for the web app, but I don't know where I saw it.

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

It's being fixed in the next lemmy update (not just the app), which I heard should be coming next week.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@Brainsick lol geocities? wow lol blast from the past. and that's not a bug. it's a feature.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Angelfire was a classic, too!

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