New posts keep auto popping up on lemmy.world without refreshing [Edge]
Not sure why this is happening, it's been like it since I came over and it's quite annoying. No matter if it's on All and filtered by Hot,Active etc, every so often new posts will auto feed right at the top and shift everything down.
Is this a bug on my end, or intended functionality? It sucks :)
It was intended functionality in 0.17.4. Pretty sure it was changed in 0.18.0 but .world has not upgraded because it's missing captcha functionality.
They tried to go to a release candidate of 0.18.1 that has captchas again but since it's not fully tested it didn't behave well apparently.
I think that is a problem with the current back-end version of Lemmy (0.17.4). I belivie that this is fixed in 0.18.0, but Lemmy.world has not been able to upgrade to it, as it is, presumably, badly optimized for larger Lemmy instances such as Lemmy.world.
That's pretty much it. Even 0.18.1 has some bugs - although the lemm.ee dev has managed to get it working quite nicely, with a few mods.
0.18.1 isn't out yet. The 4th release candidate was tagged 7 hours ago (with the first RC being tagged 2 days ago). It took 8 RCs and 18 betas for 0.18.0 to release, though that was a much larger update.
AFAIK, the biggest issue with 0.18.0 is that CAPTCHAs were removed (for accessibility reasons) which many instances with open registration, like lemmy.world, relied onto help combat bots. 0.18.1 is supposed to add support for the fully automated mCaptcha (which just needs to do a bunch of math in your browser). Whether that is sufficient to fight bots remains to be seen, but that is what some instances are waiting on.
Yes, it hasn't officially released, and like I say the lemm.ee dev said he had to make several modifications to get it workable. However his modified version does indeed work pretty well. I expect he'll have pushed his mods to the official github.
I’m a refugee from Apollo at the most recently failed social media place, and this is one of the biggest reasons I can’t, yet, call the Fed I’verse home. If I try to click a post it’s gone before my hand gets to it and it usually slips off the page before I catch up to it.
Same. I’ve been very surprised to see so few mention this problem and I threads where it’s brought up it’s dismissed as a temporary issue or even a feature. It’s been like this for a month on lemmy.world and many other instances. For me it makes it nearly unusable and I usually go to kbin instead.
I see the same behavior in Chrome. I wonder if this is some poorly executed way to encourage users to be active on new posts. I do like that a similar feature auto-displays new comments. That doesn't bother me nearly as much as the new posts.
Its a bug not a feature. I hear it's fixed in version 0.18 of the server code, but lemmy.world is still running 0.17 due to issues with the update.
If it bothers you, be patient or switch to an instance that is running 0.18. You can see the version number at the bottom of the page on desktop.