[testing] we made it to lemmy 0.19.12 but federation feels off

a year ago by self to c/servernews

the good news: we're now on the newest stable lemmy!

the bad news: federation feels a little off to me? sometimes this is a federation queue thing that resolves itself, sometimes it's an indication of a problem.

things to test if you want to help out:

see if you can see your posts on other lemmy and mastodon instances
post here from other instances
see if you can load communities, threads, and comments in non-local communities (this is a big one)
see if you can load our communities from other instances and see up-to-date threads and comments
make sure your own profile settings are as they should be
if you aren't getting email notifications and should be, let me know

I'll push all my changes and post a full changelog once we know 0.19.12's running stable!

sailor_sega_saturn 15 points a year ago

Nobody:

Absolutely no one:

Not a single soul on this earth:

Lemmy: Oh hey I know what the people want! A screen full of web-dev's worst design sin of the 2010s every time they navigate back to the main page.

An image of a bunch of content placeholders (a.k.a.) skeleton screens. This is an animated block of grey that covers page contents to indicate that it is still loading

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self 7 points a year ago

god somehow it’s even worse in the inbox — the whole thing turns to a gigantic placeholder every time you mark a post as read. it’s such a React problem for software to have

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froztbyte 6 points a year ago

an undetermined mystery: me refreshing my recent-comments feed (my default/home view) which had this post showing up also suddenly shifted font size

all hail the jank

(...I'll try dig into it but also Fuck HTML Fuck Browsers (I'm not in the mood for applicable lemmy invectives))

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nightsky 4 points a year ago

Urgh. Well, happy to learn that at least I'm not the only one who really dislikes that kind of design element.

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swlabr 11 points a year ago

Oh, federation is broken, the thing that means strangers wander over here and think they’re allowed to just pop off with shit takes? Whatever will we do??

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froztbyte 11 points a year ago

laugh and deride less :<

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zogwarg 9 points a year ago

Boop.

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froztbyte 7 points a year ago

blorp

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moseschrute 3 points a year ago

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self 9 points a year ago

my lemmy came preconfigured for eyes? where we’re going we don’t need eyes

image description

one of the new buttons on the lemmy post list toolbar is a button cluster where one button is an eye logo and the other is a no eye logo and no eye is selected and I don’t know what that means

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db0 6 points a year ago

I think it means "show/hide read posts"

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self 6 points a year ago

I'm finally on desktop and the tooltip claims "show hidden posts" and "hide hidden posts"? so that's new

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gerikson 9 points a year ago

Welcome back, and thank you for your hard work.

I dunno if federation works because I don't give a flying toss about it myself, sorry!

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scruiser 8 points a year ago

I dunno if federation works because I don’t give a flying toss about it myself

Is that the feature that lures in funny idiots that can't read the description of the purpose of this place and have to be banned for trying to turn it into debate club?

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db0 9 points a year ago

Ahoy from /0!

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froztbyte 6 points a year ago

oh noes, pirates!

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smiletolerantly 8 points a year ago

New Lemmy version: objectively does look sleeker and more modern

Me: I hate change 😠

But also everything looks... Slightly enlarged? And now things don't fit in one row on my phone anymore where they previously did.

(I know, you can't do anything about that, just shaking my fist at the sky)

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self 8 points a year ago

it’s definitely slightly more modern (derogatory) but I don’t think I can agree on it being sleeker

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dgerard 7 points a year ago

the flashing grey spoiler-like thing it does to the text is quite annoying

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istewart 10 points a year ago

But it's got what progressive web apps crave... it's got animations

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froztbyte 6 points a year ago

But also everything looks… Slightly enlarged?

Have You Seen The Arrow

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smiletolerantly 5 points a year ago

thiccccccc

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blakestacey 7 points a year ago

Scrolling after doing the "view votes" thing seems to work now.

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blakestacey 8 points a year ago

And the font size just increased?

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self 8 points a year ago

you might be seeing the new version of Lemmy in bits and pieces as your browser grabs the new stylesheet (cachebusting should have prevented this? note to self to make sure that’s not broken again)

so anyway welcome to the new, uglier Lemmy that’s larger in general but somehow worse on mobile

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froztbyte 5 points a year ago

there are also at least two new theme variants (and 3 fondled theme variants) to choose from

(I have no idea if they're any good I'm just speaking from diff-eyeball recollection here)

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dgerard 6 points a year ago

the post is visible at https://circumstances.run/, but comments don't go from here to there nor the other way

we have authorized_fetch on I think?

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self 6 points a year ago

yep! I haven’t tried to turn it back on for a.s yet, since last time I did it quietly broke federation for an uncomfortably long period. once we’ve shaken the bugs out of plain federation, I’ll give it a toggle and we can do some testing.

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froztbyte 4 points a year ago

I designate david for authfetch debugs

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dgerard 4 points a year ago

@flere-imsaho would be better, it's his instance

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mawhrin 6 points a year ago

i'm watching like a hawk (if a hawk was a middle-aged dude on a brief vacation on the baltic sea)

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scruiser 4 points a year ago

On both mobile (safari and chrome) and browser (firefox) I occasionally get a thing where all the posts are massively oversized. It goes away when I refresh.

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scruiser 2 points a year ago

Having seen the problem a few more times I can elaborate more clearly now. All the icons get temporarily massive oversized while the text actually stays the same size. I've only had it occur once on my computer browser, but it reoccurs regularly on my safari mobile browser, with a refresh fixing it each time.

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mlen 4 points a year ago

Can you try clearing the browser cache? Issues disappearing after a refresh sounds like it may be cache related

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scruiser 1 point a year ago

I don't have a guaranteed way to recreate the issue, so I'm not absolutely sure, but that seems to have fixed it!

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froztbyte 4 points a year ago

I’ve tested mlem, but would like more mobile client tests (jerboa etc)

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YourNetworkIsHaunted 5 points a year ago

Lenny Connect appears functional, and has been my main app.

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davidgerard 4 points a year ago

@self test authorized_fetch

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dgerard 4 points a year ago

oh hay I posted this over on circumstances.run and it made it here instantly!

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dgerard 4 points a year ago

and the above comment made it to circumstances.run instantly!

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dgerard 3 points a year ago

second test reply

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dgerard 3 points a year ago

another top level test comment

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smiletolerantly 2 points a year ago

I know this is not the right thread, but also don't know what the right thread would me (maybe a sticky in this community would be a good idea?), but:

I've been having a lot of difficulty accessing this instance for at least a week. For sometimes hours on end, I get 503s (as in, no real response at all; not a Lemmy 503 code, just a blank page with 503). Usually a short time later, everything works perfectly smooth again.

Anyone else?

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froztbyte 2 points a year ago

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smiletolerantly 3 points a year ago

Ah, nice, thanks!

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