Buggy looking behaviour observed, when I view a post on another instance or make a post on another instance then go back to viewing it, in front of my eyes, I can see massive disparities in the amount of upvotes and downvotes. Talking a post showing 600 upvotes then a few seconds later, 5 upvotes, then 40 etc

  • I’ve only seen this when I have multiple tabs open. The updates are coming in over web sockets and i think it gets confused when you have two clients for the same user session

    • OrangeSliceM
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      11 year ago

      I am seeing in the issue tracker that v0.18 is going to migrate away from using websockets, which should resolve the issue. Not sure when the devs are planning to release that.

  • @UrbenLegend@lemmy.ml
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    21 year ago

    I think it’s a federation issue. Maybe it first shows local count and then gets updated with federation counts from other servers?

  • krimsonbun
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    21 year ago

    Yeah this happened on some reddit clients as well it’s very interesting

    • @Vlyn@lemmy.ml
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      01 year ago

      On Reddit it was deliberate. That way bot users had a more difficult time to tell if their vote got counted (as they try to circumvent bot blocking and do vote brigading).

      Here on Lemmy it’s probably just a bug due to high server load.

  • @iso@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    11 year ago

    I heard somewhere that it’s a bug, but the massive server load on the bigger instances probably doesn’t help either