So, browsing Lemmy.world today, I’ve noticed a green box show up a couple times in the lower left corner that says “Report Created”. Any idea what that’s about?

  • John
    4•1 year ago

    Same here. Just got one of those right after opening this post.

    Also, just noticed the upvotes count changing frequently, like from 9 to 800+, then 400+, 100+, 800+ again. lol

    • @deadcyclo
      5•1 year ago

      The upvote jumping is caused by issues with the websocket implementation. As far as I heard they are going to get rid of websockets completely in the next version and have static page rendering instead.

    • Slashzero
      4•1 year ago

      Yup – that’s been reported too. It’s not a great look. I’ve been looking at the up/down vote functionality, and it is literally triggering an INSERT to the DB every single time you click either button.

      • Kushan
        1•1 year ago

        Is that because of some kind of event sourcing, though? That’s not an uncommon way of handling these things.

        • Slashzero
          1•1 year ago

          Yes, of course it makes sense to do it that way. The issue is you can literally click the up arrow repeatedly as fast as you can and create some database load.

          Usually, at least from my experience, it is good practice to put some logic client-side to prevent a user from repeatedly clicking a button accidentally (or on purpose – hey, why did I get a double post?!). Even a quarter second delay can help.

          • Kushan
            2•1 year ago

            Yeah, that kind of abuse prevention really shouldn’t be client side at all. It’s one thing to prevent a user accidentally causing harm, but if a bad actor can deliberately do it then we’ve got bigger problems.