Pretty useful article! I’m pretty sure I’ve seen data shifting happen a few times on Jerboa.
I wonder if uuid7 based pagination solves these issues. Precise enough that you don’t overlap/over fetch data with time based pagination, while still being essentially time based so you have a consistent offset. Definitely important to limit the size if requests, though.
lazily loading notifications
…What?
This whole article was sprung from a discussion of exactly that case, because users often simply don’t delete notifications. It’s very common for users to have years of undismissed notifications stacked up under the notification bell, and it’s not a good experience to load them all at once.
Ah, like smartphone/Windows notifications, not webpage popups? Yeah, always wonder how my dad doesn’t miss everything, despite always having 20+ notifications.
Yeah, or even the inbox in lemmy. It’s a surprisingly common thing.
Fairly lame article but yeah this is something lemmy used to get wrong. I haven’t paid attention to whether it still does.
They fixed this in version 0.19 pr #3872 (note that the cursor here is a way of hiding a post ID to continue from, as far as I can see).
Also, lame article? 😖
Who uses “lame” in 2024? It was so pervasive during the Digg times.
