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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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[–] gh0stcassette@kbin.social 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] immediate_winter@marginalcuriosity.net 11 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

[–] tal@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] T156@lemmy.world 14 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.

[–] T156@lemmy.world 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.

[–] Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 65 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.

[–] Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org 6 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.

[–] UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 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!

[–] 51@kbin.social 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] LiemPong_Pagong@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

@51

@Brainsick

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

[–] netburnr@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Op can't read Matrix scroll

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.de 27 points 1 year ago

It's a bug, will be fixed soon.

[–] dan96kid@lemmy.world 23 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.

[–] Magnetar@feddit.de 20 points 1 year ago

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

[–] UnicornKitty@lemmy.world 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!

[–] Brainsick@kbin.social 3 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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[–] Trance@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is why I'm using kbin right now.

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[–] NSA_Server_04@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Found this frustrating too,

[–] Myriadblue@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 8 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.

[–] SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)
[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Jerboa for Android

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[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Noedel@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Yeah I really don't know what instance to go for.

Lemmy.world sounds least political but it's not stable. Apparently beehaw is now also defederated from .world so immediately we're missing some huge communities that are now going to be split across two instances that don't work together.

So now I'll need multiple accounts to use multiple instances of the same thing. This sort of defeats the whole purpose of a connected system. It could just as wel create worse echo chambers than we have on traditional socia media.

[–] administrator@lemmy.pro 2 points 1 year ago

If you’re not ready to make your own instance, can use an under-the-radar instance like ours at Lemmy.pro and you’ll avoid the issue

[–] redcalcium@c.calciumlabs.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So now I’ll need multiple accounts to use multiple instances of the same thing.

You'll only need one account if you run your own instance (as long as it's not blocked from both servers).

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[–] lynny@lemmy.world 5 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.

[–] gorkx@kbin.social 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.

[–] taurentipper@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Brainsick@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Angelfire was a classic, too!

[–] lynny@lemmy.world 2 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.

[–] gibbedygook@sh.itjust.works 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.

[–] Admetus@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

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

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