sh.itjust.works Main Community

7890 readers

1 users here now

Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

TheDude@sh.itjust.works

manifex@sh.itjust.works

biela@sh.itjust.works

imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works

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

submitted 2 years ago by smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

8 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] TiffyBelle@feddit.uk 6 points 2 years 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.