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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 2 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.408s | source
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36435600[source]▶
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

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kimbernator ◴[22 Jun 23 17:37 UTC] No.36435808[source]▶
I'm trying really hard to like Lemmy, but whenever I'm reading through posts on "active", "hot", etc. it will initially load with the correct content. But then, I get about 10 seconds before the entire list frantically reflows and fills with brand new posts from all over the place. Extraordinarily annoying. I get that creating a new post is itself "activity" which is probably why it does that, I don't think posts of that nature meet the description of "hot".

Maybe I just need to be going by Top->Day

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MSFT_Edging ◴[22 Jun 23 17:57 UTC] No.36436130[source]▶
The current sorting algo is sorta not great. An instance i'm on that forked, and then unforked recently is dealing with this right now. We had our own react frontend with really nice custom themes, but in order to federate we had to go back to the main codebase.

It's not great but it will hopefully improve. A lot of growing pains but overall its a really exciting time.

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1. kimbernator ◴[22 Jun 23 18:00 UTC] No.36436187[source]▶
So long as it's a known thing, I trust it will improve. It's just unfortunate that it had to be this broken during Lemmy's most opportune moment to capture new users.

That, among other things, is creating a lot of friction for new users at the moment though.

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2. MSFT_Edging ◴[22 Jun 23 20:48 UTC] No.36438747[source]▶
Yeah, I've been urging patience to a few folks who seem frustrated by the change. IIRC its not a big team working on lemmy, and then you have many different teams deploying their instances, adding custom features, etc.

It's certainly improved a lot over time, but the reddit exodus wasn't really planned. I'm sure the lemmy devs are feeling the pressure.