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Still learning - the Lemmy webapp - and behavior of showing new postings without having to manually refresh - and the setting "Show Notifications for New Posts" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Still learning, but so far the webapp non-mobile experience seems to be that if I'm sitting on the home page looking at the listing of postings, it automatically inserts new ones at the top without me having to hit refresh.

That's different from "old Reddit", Fark, Slashdot behavior where the page output was static and a manual browser refresh is required.

Is there a preference to control this behavior so it can be a static page? I tend to revisit my web browser tabs after an hour or two and want to finish reading where I left off - and it dynamically updating goes against my desires.

Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I like the behavior personally but it won't scale since its keeping a websocket open for each active user. On the plus side it makes notifications pop up in real time.

But i guess I'm OK with ordinary http refresh.. And it does have advantages, like you mention. I do get a bit lost on page reload also.