A posting on the Instance-specific issues/observations about the upgrade: https://lemmy.ml/post/1444409
KNOWN BUGS
- Searching site-wide for “0.18” generates an error. This was working fine in 0.17.4 before Lemmy.ml upgraded: https://lemmy.ml/search?q=0.18&type=All&listingType=All&page=1&sort=TopAll
Already noticing some major improvements in both UI and functionality. So nice to see devs that prioritize improving the platform instead of goofing around with dumbass money making schemes.
Liking the new functionality so far! The spinner when clicking the upvote button is a huge improvement and lets you know that your upvote was actually received. I have noticed that some posts on my homepage show as expanded by default which is annoying (full size image/video instead of thumbnail) and this wasn’t happening before.
Already seeing a positive difference on lemmy.ml. Better feed content and no more posts being added constantly to the top when you browse All
Can anyone explain why lemmy decided to remove websockets, what they decided to adopt instead of websockets, and to what extent websockets are being removed? I still feel like I don’t understand this move (but I’m sure there’s a good reason)
The primary reason I suspect is that it was buggy code. You would be reading a post and the votes and even the title and body of a post would just change in front of you to the wrong post. The server wasn’t keeping the index of clients correct or something. It was a very uncommon way to build a webapp
I’m getting a lot of syntax errors at the bottom of the page since well… recently.
SyntaxError: JSON Parse error: Unrecognized token ‘<’
Can we please not have a default avatar? I specifically want no avatar.
Hard disagree, and in fact this was one of my early complaints, and a pretty serious usability issue: because some accounts had an avatar and some didnt, the justification was all over the place, making the scanning of usernames and community names a real chore and tiresome.
Wether you like the default picture or not, well I guess that’s a matter of personal preference. You could always upload a black box for yourself (or even a transparent PNG?).
But that aside this is objectively better UX.
The good news is, there are so many front ends in development, we’ll all quickly find a UX tailored to our needs.
Is the top bar supposed to not be using the entirety of the available horizontal screen space?
The URL thing used to be
https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy/data_type/Comment/sort/New/Page/1But now it’s
https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy?dataType=Comment&page=1&sort=NewThe URL feels uglier.
