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Hexbear 0.19.5 update finished! (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi All,

Thanks for the patience on the 8 hour downtime. The upgrade was completed successfully, and we are now on latest lemmy version, 0.19.5. The update encompasses these changes:

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.5_-_A_Few_Bugfixes

In addition, we have decided to host a new, experimental frontend for lemmy, hosted at https://next.hexbear.net. This frontend is in-development at https://github.com/sunaurus/lemmy-ui-next. Its generally a faster, more efficient, and simpler UI. It is missing some features, such as markdown editor and emoji picker currently. But, if you are on a low-powered device, you may find the experience of browsing and posting much better than the official UI.

Please post any bugs or feedback here and I'll try and address them if possible.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

This update has made the SSR functionality basically useless by adding the interstitial pulsing placeholders... Any way we can disable those for the first pageload or something? because it's driving me bonkers

On slow devices, it goes like this:

The page loads (takes a few seconds),
content loads in basically immediately
I start reading/scrolling.
After 1-2 seconds, the content that was loaded from the server initially disappears entirely, replaced by the placeholder animations
then all that content is re-loaded, wasting time and data,
after several seconds of that, the content is rendered again and I can actually browse.

afaik it was always wasting CPU cycles/data but the hip new animations took that background annoyance and made it an actual UX issue

As always thank you for the effort though, the next UI is intriguing though I don't love the black and blue theming

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

yeah i know, its super annoying and looks awful. the SSR was always garbage for the official ui, you get a fully rendered webpage but then the SPA takes over and re-renders. I might take a look at disabling on first load.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

thanks for looking. I don't even mind the look so much as it interrupts the slop. But even on desktop it can look bad yah