This is turning into a deal breaker for me. It doesn’t matter what instance I’m on, or what I have selected from the dropdown (or browser I’m using), but “new” posts are constantly flooding the feed list.
First, new posts shouldn’t even show if I specifically select a different view. Second, they flood things so fast I can’t even click on the things I’m interested in. If I look away from the page for 30 seconds it’s just junk.
I’ve had two other people tell me they are seeing the same thing. Tested on MacOS and Windows. Chrome/Brave/Firefox/Safari.
Anyone have a fix?
Welp, I think it’s pretty clear Lemmy is not ready for primetime. The number of new bugs filed vs. the number of people working on the project, doesn’t inspire much hope for things like this particular issue. And the fact that all instances combined still have fewer people online right now than some of the average size subreddits, means people don’t really give a shit about the API change. In the end, Lemmy might get a nice little bump, but Reddit isn’t going anywhere.
I’ll definitely keep an eye on Lemmy for the future, but it’s not going to replace anything for me.
It ought to improve with the move to version 0.18, which was just released today. They are replacing the WebSocket API connections with HTTP(S, I hope) connections in order to reduce the amount of traffic going back and forth. I don’t know for sure, but I think this will take out the real-time updating feature that causes these feeds to move around while you’re reading them.
Here’s the list of what they have done for 0.18, and it’s clear they have been working hard: