Why does the frontpage of kbin.social work so much better than any other server? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by Huschke@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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When I visit kbin.social, I see new posts regularly. On other servers posts stay on the frontpage for multiple days. This is also true if I switch their sorting to "hot". So that is probably not the difference.

What is kbin.social doing differently?

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[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

I've seen like 5 different posts about this already, I guess I'll reply to this one too xD

Lemmy "Hot" ranking is currently kinda broken. There's an edge case that stops the hot_rank column from decreasing, meaning the post never goes off the front page. Will be fixed in 0.18.

[-] mobiuscoffee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Do you know when 0.18 will be out?

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Trite answer: When it's done

More in-depth answer: Currently there's no set date. It depends on how quickly they can tear out all the WebSockets code and replace it with simple HTTP (that's the BIG change, will fix a lot of different things), and then test those changes. The hot_rank fix has already been merged, that's done, but they want a stable, cohesive release with all the good stuff.

Current estimations I've seen range from 1-2 weeks, but it all depends on how fast they can get it coded and tested.

[-] SwellowTheSun 1 points 1 year ago

Why are they getting rid of WebSockets? It's really useful for instant data and is often faster than simple HTTP requests.

[-] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

You can see the discussion about this here, but the short version is that it's not scalable, hits apps & browsers like a truck, memory leaks, and live updates cause feed reshuffling which is really annoying

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