Hey there, new to lemmy. Is there a way to stop lemmy from live-updating the feed? It makes it impossible to click on images or read posts since it constantly gets pushed down. Its really bad when i want to scroll local to find communities. Any help appreciated!
This is because Lemmy uses websockets to retrieve live data from the server. I imagine this was a good thing when Lemmy was unpopulated, but now it’s just in the way. It’s also causing strange bugs, like the vote count rapidly changing to wrong values, or a post just completely changing into a different one while you are reading it.
Websockets will be removed from Lemmy in 0.18, which should fix all of this.
Do we have an estimated release date?
Please see my comment here
that sounds great. I legit have funny enough seen my votes change from 5 up to 1,6 k up to 6 up.
Yeah, it is pretty weird. I guess the websockets feature was never tested with 100,000% more users than Lemmy had before. We broke Lemmy :P
That one got missed in the load test…
Both of these strange bugs happened when I was trying to read this post, and I don’t think I ever observed them until just now.