Just joined, and well, I’m thinking ill stay. Ive been looking for a good reddit alternative for a while now. devs, you’ve done quite some good work here.

  • buda@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    If you look at a site like https://news.ycombinator.com/news , you can left click on your mouse and it will highlight and select any text. This is the standard for most websites. But on Lemmy, it doesn’t highlight or allow me to select text.

    Edit: Okay it may be related to me having it in the sidebar on Edge. For some reason, Hacker News works perfect but Lemmy doesn’t.

    • menturi@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Oh I think I am encountering a related issue now. If I hold the mouse down to highlight text for a longer period of time (say, 10 seconds), it just randomly unhighlights most of the text and stops highlighting any more text. It seemed to only happen when selecting text across multiple posts. Though it is inconsistent, sometimes happening right away, other times it looks like it doesn’t happen at all. I wonder if it has something to do with Javascript updating the posts maybe?> ere. I

      • bappityEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        check your browser devtools network requests while you’re trying to select stuff if there’s some appearing on an interval it could be javascript