How would refreshing the page stop the deluge of new posts that OP is talking about? Isn't that exactly the problem?
falconfetus8
joined 1 year ago
It's a bug that the site auto-updates whenever a new post is made? I thought that was a feature. It's even advertised on join-lemmy.org
How is that bug related to this issue? The problem OP is describing is that there's a high volume of new posts, each of which causes the page to auto-update. That might have been OK when traffic was lower, but during high traffic it makes the site unusable, as it's constantly pushing the post you were reading out of view. How will fixing the linked bug fix this issue?
He already publicly admitted that Reddit isn't profitable. I'm sure that inspired tons of confidence in investors.
I'd rather people not delete their content at all, tbh. Imagine all of the Google searches that would be borked by it.
I tried kbin, but I left it behind when I realized I couldn't tell the difference between federated and non federated posts.
Yeah, there needs to be a way to toggle this.
Wait...are you saying this is bad advice, or are you refuting other bad advice?
This was an entire month ago
Well, lemmy.ml still needs to serve you the content the first time in order to cache it. And since you're the only person in your instance, you're the only person benefiting from that cache. So you're still exerting at least the same load as if you were browsing lemmy.ml directly.
That sounds like a huge oversight, if so.
Why are people talking about this like this is a bug that can just be patched? I'm reading the comments in this thread, and it's like everyone's talking about a completely different thing. Am I crazy?
It's obviously not a bug, unless you consider "there is no way to turn off auto updates" to be a bug. The GitHub link doesn't mention anything about adding a toggle, though. It's talking about fixing some kind of deadlock in the database that was causing the homepage to stop refreshing. That is the exact opposite of what OP is asking for!