I’m trying to be very patient with the technical issues so far because I know scaling is not easy.
The bugs that jump out the most are:
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Sometimes Jerboa shows comments of a previously viewed post on a different post. If you comment, it’ll go to the old thread. To avoid this, swipe down to force a refresh.
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SORT BY HOT doesn’t work. (But you can sort by New, all instances)
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“Could not value type java something something”, honestly this is when I wait a bit and just try again. I have no good workaround for this one.
(1) is https://github.com/dessalines/jerboa/issues/704
In case you want to follow
I think the cause of 1 and 3 is that lemmy.ml is currently overloaded because of all the new users and Jerboa doesn’t handle that very well
My guess is that it gets a 502 (which is HTML) while it expects a JSON, tries to convert and fails.
It should catch the 502 based on the status message and then do retries using exponential back-off.
