I’ve been noticing that when I open a page for a post, the upvote counter seemed to bounce around wildly. Figured it was just something to do with the enormous load on the instance(s). However, I just noticed something extra strange and thought the info may help someone troubleshoot and fix it.
I saw a post come in for the lemmy.world community that just got posted less than a minute earlier. I opened it, and saw the upvote counter was something like 745, which seemed odd. Then about 10 seconds later while I was watching, it changed to 128. 10ish more seconds go by, and it changed to 996 (actual numbers were slightly different as I wasn’t trying to memorize them).
It seems highly unlikely that a post less than a minute old would have any of those upvotes. I suspect that there’s an issue where post upvote counters are getting updates with the counters from other posts. When you hover over it, the popup seems to reflect a more accurate number.
Not sure if this is a lemmy.world issue, or a lemmy as a whole issue.
Lemmy uses a websocket connection to send updates to your browser. What seems to happen is that when you go from the thread view to a post, the websocket still receives updates for all posts, and the upvote counter changes whenever it receives an update for an unrelated post.
I noticed this too. I think this might have something to do with the federation. As you also stated a lot of instances are overloaded right now and I think it shows you the local amount of upvotes first and then the ones from the other instances.
Edit: I press Post and the upvotes for this post jumped to 996, then 44 and now 154. There’s more going on for sure :)
I’m on my own instance and I’ve started seeing it. My instance is in no way overloaded. If upvote it goes to the correct number and stays there.
Yeah but your own instance is still communicating with the other instances which are overloaded. The numbers are indeed all over the place and when I press the upvote arrow it doesn’t seem to be working either. Or rarely at least…
And the upvotes are flickering. I’m feeling confused because I don’t know if I gave an upvote or not.
Yep, this is what I came here to say. Often I’ll give an upvote, and seconds later, it’s disappeared.
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When I make a post or view a post that is new the upvote counter will go to like 50 or more but then go back to the legit number. I’m on mobile
I’m seeing it too. I’ve logged into other instances and do not see the weird count jumping around issue.
Is there a github issue for this? I’ll like to follow its progress.
