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sort by "New", updates instantly all the time? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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I'm still playing around getting my bearings here, trying to explore this still-growing federation. I've tried browsing by "New" on both mobile and desktop a couple of times, but on desktop it's almost unsuable. Any time there's a new post, the INSTANT it goes up my feed updates, and scrolls down. Sometimes it's one post, sometimes a dozen.

To me (opinion here), sorting by "new" should sort of be a timestampped thing: I want "new as of right now but nothing more". If I refresh, sure update me to the latest. But a list that's live updating as things happen? That's... not useful to me.

Am I missing something, or does anyone else feel similarly?

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[–] inventa@lemmy.fmhy.ml 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a known bug, and it's being worked on

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Perfect, thanks for letting me know! (And now it's out there for anyone else to know too.)

[–] Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

known bug as far as I know. its actually the federating updates coming in.

[–] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Oh, so not just as simple as keeping your own ducks in a row, but preventing others' from jumping the queue too. Fuuuuuunnnnnn.

[–] BeegYoshi@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

it's both. if you sit at the top you will see brand new posts come in one at a time and then occasionally get a giant flood as a new community gets federated.

it's maddening. by far the biggest issue with this system.

[–] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 6 points 1 year ago

In Mastodon there's an option to keep a "live refresh" of the federated feed, or a static one that only updates when you refresh. For Mastodon timelines, live updates seem to make sense. In a system like Lemmy? Not so much, imo. I hope we get an option to turn live updating off. It'd probably help with server load too.

[–] quantum_mechanic@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, this is annoying. And the "hot" and "active" options always show posts from several days ago.

[–] 15Redstones@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

Also when sorting by active, posts jump around whenever you go to the next page, so you miss some posts and see others twice