sindresorhus
excessive CPU usage
Steps to reproduce
- caprine 2.60.1
- Windows 10
- open caprine
- leave running for a couple hours
What happens?
- one or more CPU cores are maxed while the program is minimized and doing nothing
What should happen instead?
- 0% CPU usage when program is minimized and doing nothing
I def would like to have these, just like masto, discord, and other platforms do. They wouldn't affect sorting or voting, but could potentially reduce many cluttered reply comments, and would be a fun addition.
I'm really busy tho so it'll be a long time most likely before I could get to this.
They wouldn't affect sorting
It might actually be neat to be able to sort by reactions. For example, say one wants to see funny things, they might try sorting by the "😆" emoji.
I've been arguing for this on Lemmy for a while; here's my most recent, cogent post about it on the platform, but I've also written out a more comprehensive description of the problem, a proposed solution, and some considerations in a blog post (which I will, if requested, just paste in a comment here -- it's rather long, though).
I see this as an existential issue for Lemmy. I know it sounds hyperbolic, but should Lemmy ever see the sort of popularity Reddit did, I believe it's inevitable that what happened to Reddit -- in terms of how vitriolic it became -- will also happen to Lemmy. Reddit started as a closed-knit community of relatively polite interactions between people who recognized each other; it's become a large, global community with all of the benefits and consequences, one of which is that it lost the benefits of being a village.
Lemmy would be well-served in getting out in front of this with a revamping of the voting system, and at least part of this IMO is the addition of reactions.
