Lemmy Devs - Why do the upvote and downvote numbers for a post change in front of my eyes when viewing a post?
Buggy looking behaviour observed, when I view a post on another instance or make a post on another instance then go back to viewing it, in front of my eyes, I can see massive disparities in the amount of upvotes and downvotes. Talking a post showing 600 upvotes then a few seconds later, 5 upvotes, then 40 etc
Yeah this happened on some reddit clients as well it's very interesting
Wanted to point that out, was the usual experience for me on Reddit.
On Reddit it was deliberate. That way bot users had a more difficult time to tell if their vote got counted (as they try to circumvent bot blocking and do vote brigading).
Here on Lemmy it's probably just a bug due to high server load.
You should report it as an issue on the issue tracker on GitHub https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui. I've been experiencing it as well, but I'm not sure how to word it
I've only seen this when I have multiple tabs open. The updates are coming in over web sockets and i think it gets confused when you have two clients for the same user session
I am seeing in the issue tracker that v0.18 is going to migrate away from using websockets, which should resolve the issue. Not sure when the devs are planning to release that.
I think it's a federation issue. Maybe it first shows local count and then gets updated with federation counts from other servers?
I've noticed the same, certainly seems like a bug.
I heard somewhere that it's a bug, but the massive server load on the bigger instances probably doesn't help either