Sync doing rather badly on formating check (placed 18 out of 20!) (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Creat@discuss.tchncs.de to c/syncforlemmy@lemmy.world

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The linked post essentially performed a benchmark of lemmy apps and if they properly display the formating options available. Sync got 3rd last place, position 18 out of 20 apps, with a score of 6.9 out of 10. There's a comment that essentially contains the test set. I hope we get some fixes, cause some of the problems have been around for a while.

In my personal experience the issues with spoiler tags, and some of the embedded images and their sizes is rather annoying. For example this comment shows perfectly fine on desktop, but becomes a garbled mess on sync (as you can tell by my comment, blaming the bot). Also note that while sync technically gets 3/3 for the images, the last image should be text-sized between the "arrows". It isn't, it's just huge (and consequently a pixelated mess).

Edit: fixed link to example comment for spoiler.

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[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 47 points 4 months ago

The spoiler tag issue is an especially big problem as it comes up a lot. I still can't let go of Sync as it looks and feels the best, but it would be nice if this stuff got fixed.

[-] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Yeah the new media bias bot that posts on many communities uses formatting that looks fine on Lemmy UI but weird in sync

[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I really hate bots like that. I know the creators mean well, but posting on everything just makes it meaningless.

[-] SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

There is actually evidence that the creator does not mean well at all. And it very well might be a propagandizing bot that is trying to shift the Overton window by labeling center and right leaning media as left biased.

[-] can@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Right? And it makes it a lot harder to know which posts actually have comments. I wish it showed none if the only comment is a bot I've blocked but I understand that could be more work than it'd really be worth. It's relatively minor.