I’m still playing around getting my bearings here, trying to explore this still-growing federation. I’ve tried browsing by “New” on both mobile and desktop a couple of times, but on desktop it’s almost unsuable. Any time there’s a new post, the INSTANT it goes up my feed updates, and scrolls down. Sometimes it’s one post, sometimes a dozen.
To me (opinion here), sorting by “new” should sort of be a timestampped thing: I want “new as of right now but nothing more”. If I refresh, sure update me to the latest. But a list that’s live updating as things happen? That’s… not useful to me.
Am I missing something, or does anyone else feel similarly?
In Mastodon there’s an option to keep a “live refresh” of the federated feed, or a static one that only updates when you refresh. For Mastodon timelines, live updates seem to make sense. In a system like Lemmy? Not so much, imo. I hope we get an option to turn live updating off. It’d probably help with server load too.