I’m trying to view Lemmy from the browser but have already seen most of the posts at the top, so to get new stuff I’m trying to look at all communities sorted by new. But as I scroll down the page keeps refreshing the posts automatically and pushing stuff I’ve already scrolled past into view again, and sometimes causing misclicks. Is there a way to disable that so I only get new posts when I refresh the page?

This problem is only going to get worse if the site gets busier.

  • menachem@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s the same thing. It looks like that user is watching the site reload the entire list, and inaccurately at that (they’re looking at all by new but seeing days old posts in between minutes old ones?). What’s happening to me is that if I just sit at the top of the page I can watch as new posts come in live, one at a time. Which sounds cool in theory, but really hurts the browsing experience!

      • borari@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        So I just noticed this behavior while sitting at the top of the All/New feed on my instance. I noticed that the surge of “new” posts that came in were all pretty old, and all from one or two communities on another instance. I’m now wondering if maybe there’s some sort of race condition going on with the interaction between the database and the front-end, where these old posts are being considered “new” when they’re initially pulled in to the local instance db.

      • Menachem@midwest.socialEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That’s concerning. There’ll be a ton of problems like that if Lemmy actually sees a mass migration happen. Top of the list: what’s stopping people from vote brigading posts with accounts from different instances? I’ve had to create 3 of them just to be able to consistently access the site as the first one didn’t work and the second (this one) saw excessive loading times for a few hours.

          • menachem@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            At least with Reddit it’s easily detectable (in theory, assuming anyone cared) without putting in the extra effort of IP masking. Here it seems like it’d be impossible to counter even if it were done by a complete layman. If someone has just one account on 5+ different instances they could make a huge difference by voting on their own posts without ever being detected.

            Honestly, now that I think about it, it’s probably already happening to great effect considering how few people there are voting.

            But yeah, oh well. Hopefully something works out.