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.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2025
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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
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))
Urgh. Well, happy to learn that at least I'm not the only one who really dislikes that kind of design element.
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??
laugh and deride less :<
my lemmy came preconfigured for eyes? where we’re going we don’t need eyes
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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
I think it means "show/hide read posts"
I'm finally on desktop and the tooltip claims "show hidden posts" and "hide hidden posts"? so that's new
Ahoy from /0!
oh noes, pirates!
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!
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?
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)
it’s definitely slightly more modern (derogatory) but I don’t think I can agree on it being sleeker
the flashing grey spoiler-like thing it does to the text is quite annoying
But it's got what progressive web apps crave... it's got animations
Scrolling after doing the "view votes" thing seems to work now.
And the font size just increased?
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
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)
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?
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.
I designate david for authfetch debugs
@flere-imsaho would be better, it's his instance
i'm watching like a hawk (if a hawk was a middle-aged dude on a brief vacation on the baltic sea)
I've just enabled authorized_fetch; give it a try and see if it works!
so far the comments on this post aren't reaching there ...
I’ve tested mlem, but would like more mobile client tests (jerboa etc)
Lenny Connect appears functional, and has been my main app.
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.
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.
Can you try clearing the browser cache? Issues disappearing after a refresh sounds like it may be cache related
I don't have a guaranteed way to recreate the issue, so I'm not absolutely sure, but that seems to have fixed it!
another top level test comment