I cannot put into words how profoundly stupid this “feature” is. AOL and Geocities pages were genuinely more user friendly. Whoever added it, refreshed the page and said “yeah, this works well” and left it in should be fired! …out of a cannon and into the Sun!
It was never exactly a feature, it was to do with how websockets handled new posts. They’re movinig away from websockets in 0.18 so it won’t be a thing anymore.
And it was never useful, by any sane argument. NEVER (purposefully) spontaneously move text out from underneath a user’s eyes!
Is that just for the feed or comments too? I like it on the comments
Probably both, since I doubt that the Lemmy devs would move only half the site away from web sockets. They probably use similar enough code behind the scenes that a change to that would affect both posts and comments.