Hi All,
Thanks for the patience on the 8 hour downtime. The upgrade was completed successfully, and we are now on latest lemmy version, 0.19.5. The update encompasses these changes:
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.5_-_A_Few_Bugfixes
In addition, we have decided to host a new, experimental frontend for lemmy, hosted at https://next.hexbear.net. This frontend is in-development at https://github.com/sunaurus/lemmy-ui-next. Its generally a faster, more efficient, and simpler UI. It is missing some features, such as markdown editor and emoji picker currently. But, if you are on a low-powered device, you may find the experience of browsing and posting much better than the official UI.
Please post any bugs or feedback here and I’ll try and address them if possible.
Thanks!
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It is missing some features, such as markdown editor and emoji picker currently.
Literally unusable
no emoji
For hexbear being down for 8 hours I want a discount on my next payment.
I don’t like the upbear number. Its crooked aura mocks me
There’s a bug on the new version where, basically, buttons don’t work that others and I suffer from. Here’s a thread with more details. The “Next” interface seems to work, however.
unfortunately i don’t have any apple devices to test; this one will probably be up to lemmy devs themselves.
I experience it on Firefox on KDebian, but that’s probably not helpful either
Please post any bugs or feedback here
Middle-clicking the “Next” button at the bottom of the page doesn’t do the default browser behavior, which is to open the page in a new tab. Instead of the default browser behavior, nothing happens.
That’s because it’s not a link, it just triggers some javascript. Don’t think its a new issue either. There’s probably a way to make it work but I don’t know what it is, otherwise I’d try to contribute it upstream.
Though I do see that now we don’t even rewrite the URL with the sort/pagination parameters anymore when changing pages… 0.19.3 would change the URL to something like this:
/?dataType=Post&pageCursor=P103a73c&sort=Activeis that intended @makotech222@hexbear.net ?
I still get the url parameters:
‘/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&pageCursor=P2bba9c&sort=Active’ for example
I noticed they changed the code that handles creating the parameters, and it must be failing on safari for some reason.
weird I just retested and now I get them too. Firefox on linux
This update has made the SSR functionality basically useless by adding the interstitial pulsing placeholders… Any way we can disable those for the first pageload or something? because it’s driving me bonkers
On slow devices, it goes like this:
- The page loads (takes a few seconds),
- content loads in basically immediately
- I start reading/scrolling.
- After 1-2 seconds, the content that was loaded from the server initially disappears entirely, replaced by the placeholder animations
- then all that content is re-loaded, wasting time and data,
- after several seconds of that, the content is rendered again and I can actually browse.
afaik it was always wasting CPU cycles/data but the hip new animations took that background annoyance and made it an actual UX issue
As always thank you for the effort though, the next UI is intriguing though I don’t love the black and blue theming
yeah i know, its super annoying and looks awful. the SSR was always garbage for the official ui, you get a fully rendered webpage but then the SPA takes over and re-renders. I might take a look at disabling on first load.
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thanks for looking. I don’t even mind the look so much as it interrupts the slop. But even on desktop it can look bad yah
Thanks for all of your hard work! Something I noticed while Hexbear was down for maintenance:
test.hexbear.net and live.hexbear.net both host their images on hexbear.net, but since both sites are up when hexbear.net is down for maintenance, they should probably host their images somewhere other than directly on hexbear.net, as those images cannot be viewed when Hexbear itself is down.
In the case of test.hexbear.net, it does host a copy of Hexbear images there, but since test.hexbear.net pages only link to images hosted on hexbear.net, those copies seem to go unused.
yeah cause lemmy stores full urls to pictures in the database. so when we run in the test environment, they still point to prod pictrs. Not much we can do about that unfortunately; just a minor inconvenience.
Site seems to work fine on desktop but when I browse on my phone (IOS. safari) the next button to scroll the page does not work, it just loads the same page. Also, I can’t sort any thread, every one is just locked to “Hot” sorting.
known issue, on safari only. Lemmy upstream will have to do a fix; ill pull it in as soon as its done though.
I’m on a desktop and I’m using an old version of Edge (I can’t upgrade because I’m using Windows 8) and sorting doesn’t work either.
Would you be able to open up your browser’s console and see if there are any errors printed in it? that would help debug a lot.
Just now I learned all the sorting buttons work for me at lemmy.world - https://lemmy.world/post/17050406
The difference is I have no account there so - of course - I’m logged out.
They’re still on the old version
I had to do a screengrab. I couldn’t figure out how to output anything.
This is how it looked before I clicked “top” and then “controversial”
After clicked those - there were no more messages.
-–
Rant. All this stuff is too complicated. Why can’t there be an “output” button?
hmm nothing really suspicious; i don’t think that one error is a lemmy thing. Have you tried using firefox or chrome?
Could you tell me what the url structure is for the buttons?
Like
https://hexbear.net/post/2859290?sort=topI’ll try to make a bookmarklet.
Something like: https://hexbear.net/?dataType=Post&listingType=Local&pageCursor=P2bc59a&sort=Active
The page cursor is gonna be pretty random, though, so i don’t think you can use the pages.
Are we planning on making use of local only communities? I remember some earlier noises about making more sensitive spaces local only, then federating more.
Post hiding is a great feature, I’m glad to see it.
Finally, I’m really curious why traaaaa’s name changed after the update, then changed back. Not in a “this is important to me” way so much as in a “I like hearing about cursed tech issues” way.
Are we planning on making use of local only communities? I remember some earlier noises about making more sensitive spaces local only, then federating more.
Up to the admins/mods, but its supported now at least.
Finally, I’m really curious why traaaaa’s name changed after the update, then changed back. Not in a “this is important to me” way so much as in a “I like hearing about cursed tech issues” way.
Not familiar with the issue myself, my guess is maybe one of the db columns had its varchar datatype extended?
