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!
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.
I think we need to make the auto-updating feature opt-in. No sense in designing a software that DDOSes itself.
How young is it? I suppose I could look that up.
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There’s already a pull request to fix this, it’s being merged in v18
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
I would assume that this would also reduce load on the lemmy servers.
It should, since the clients wouldn’t have to constantly ping and fetch new posts from the server, but only do so on demand.
It should, since the clients wouldn’t have to constant ping and fetch new posts from the server, but only do so on demand.
Read faster
Screenshot it before it moves, that way you can read it in your gallery without interruptions
Op can’t read Matrix scroll
I remember someone saying this ‘feature’ is from a relatively long time ago, when it wasn’t so active around here, so it was actually kinda useful. It should be removed soon
It was never exactly a feature, it was to do with how websockets handled new posts. They’re movinig away from websockets in 0.18 so it won’t be a thing anymore.
And it was never useful, by any sane argument. NEVER (purposefully) spontaneously move text out from underneath a user’s eyes!
Is that just for the feed or comments too? I like it on the comments
Probably both, since I doubt that the Lemmy devs would move only half the site away from web sockets. They probably use similar enough code behind the scenes that a change to that would affect both posts and comments.
It’s a bug, will be fixed soon.
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.
Please hang on! Everything will improve in time :)
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I tried clicking on this post, by the feed reshuffled before I could.
I can’t with this…
I was getting ready to reply and it literally timed out on me! Lol
Also, Futurama!
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)
Hooray!
I looked at kbin but it doesn’t have an app. Mastodon comes up but I don’t know what that is yet. I’m not terribly impatient though, so I can handle the growing pains at the moment.
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.
This is why I’m using kbin right now.
I am on kbin now, and, so far, it seems actually usable. Thank you for a working solution!
I like how kbin functions, but now how it looks. Lemmy instances seem more minimal in their design. Idk how to put my finger in it, but kbin just feels clunky imo.
I don’t like the way either of them look, to be honest. kbin not refreshing the feed while I am reading it is the sole factor for me.
I read somewhere that kbin supports themes, so you may be able to address your design issues that way.
Found this frustrating too,
Websockets for when Lemmy was relatively empty, so an auto update would be one every minute rather than a torrent.
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.
I started using the app for lemmy because of this. The app is really nice!
@Brainsick lol geocities? wow lol blast from the past. and that’s not a bug. it’s a feature.
Angelfire 4 life
Angelfire was a classic, too!
