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somehnguy · on Dec 12, 2022

I also received a rate limit warning, but the ‘try again’ time was only 1 minute later. So, I refreshed 1 minute later and it loaded fine.

I really appreciated that it made it clear when I should try again. The content sounded interesting so waiting a minute wasn’t a big deal.

adql · on Dec 12, 2022

I don't understand how it is "rate limiting" when I was first viewer from IP, and most likely from entire IP class (it's 6AM here in office and there is nobody here, and I'm the admin of the infrastructure so I'm pretty sure literally nobody else accessed it)

Also displaying "rate limited" in some retarded popup that instantly disappears while page reads "404 not found" is some top tier level of UX idiocy, I didn't even notice because I usually open both HN post and page so it just... displayed in the background when I wasn't looking and only refresh of the page showed it...

So I waited a minute, refreshed, then the site told me to wait 5 more minutes...

Tried on mobile (via 4g to get different IP) and it is just "not found", not even a popup

I'm imagining this idiotic attempt at throttling is direct effect of Mastodon being just so fucking slow and someone trying to patch it via more bad design

the_third_wave · on Dec 12, 2022

Can the downvoter please explain the vote of non-confidence? It does make it hard to read what is written when the server denies access after all, something which I think to be quite relevant in this context.

Slighted · on Dec 12, 2022

Mastodon is a great example of pathetic web design. More than a few times has it completely failed to work for me at all just as in your case.

Every single instance I've used has presented me with the same warning: "To use the Mastodon web application, please enable JavaScript" as I have JS disabled by default. Please, PLEASE tell my why I can't see anything on the page without Javascript. What amazing cutting-edge Twitter-busting follower-thrusting technologies could Mastodon possibly be using that it needs me to turn on JS to see absolutely anything?

rsolva · on Dec 12, 2022

Mastodon uses the open protocol ActivityPub, which means you can access posts like these from many other clients than the servers web interface. If you dislike JavaScript, may I suggest 'Brutaldon' [0]? There is also the cli/tui client 'toot' [1], if you prefer to live in the terminal.

Using a client to access posts in the fediverse network do require that you have an account somewhere in the fediverse, though.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/brutaldon/brutaldon#brutaldon [1]: https://toot.readthedocs.io/