It is extremely annoying to just scroll and all of a sudden everything refreshes and I have to look for that post I was about to click on :(

    • ojmcelderry@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      Yep, I was just about to say this. The next release of Lemmy should remove this.

      The pages auto-update using a technology called WebSockets. It’s cool tech and very effective for some uses (e.g. chat apps) – but in this case the implementation causes stuff to jump around the page as it updates.

      But as has already been said, WebSockets are being removed from 0.18.0. So that’ll mean no more auto-updating page content / comments / notifications too.

      I saw it mentioned here under the ‘Call for testers’ heading: https://lemmy.ml/post/1232795