2y ago

YSK: In wefwef on iOS if scrolling stops working, stop tapping for one second and it will start working again

Why YSK: It will start working faster if you give it a sec.

This is a bug in iOS Progressive Web Apps. Your scrolling gets locked to an element that is off the screen. Continuing to try to scroll while it’s in this locked state keeps it in the state longer. No interactions for one second will unlock it.

wefwef are tracking the issue here.

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Thank you for sharing the link so that we can also track this issue! This is the first time I saw that
- You’re welcome, happy to help!

I don't know how much future frustration you just saved me, but I'm betting it was a lot. Thank you!
- You’re welcome, future RotaryKeyboard.

Man, I thought it was just me. It was driving me bonkers! Thank you sooo much for your informative post. This literally is the first post that I saved on here. Truly ,doing god's work. 🙏
- Haha thanks mate, happy to help!

Oh cool I thought it was my phone being shit.
- Yeah I was trying to figure out patterns on what got it to work again. I normally scroll on the left of my screen, so first I thought scrolling on the right of the screen got it working. So I started doing that instantly when I had the issue, and of course that stopped working. Then I thought scrolling in the middle fixed it, and the cycle continued.
  Eventually I found the wefwef dev mention the bug. Turned out I just needed to take a breath!
- Ha, me too, I figured it was just chugging or something.

oh my god the webkit bug is over two years old apple really wants people using the app store jesus
- Yeah, that was pretty sad to see. Hopefully the talented wefwef devs can figure out a work around.

Couldn’t for the life of me understand why this kept happening. Thank you!
- You’re welcome, happy to help.

Thanks for the info! This is probably the most annoying bug in wefwef right now for me. Good to know the devs are aware and working on something. <3

I thought this was because I’m using iOS 17. Thank you! I’m torn between Memmy and wefwef, both are very nice.
- How is iOS 17 treating you?
  
  It’s pretty good and my main complaint is that the keyboard is kinda busted in telegram and less often in sometimes other apps. Basically what happens is the keyboard will cover the ui including the text box. It’s very annoying and is why I can’t recommend anyone try iOS 17 as of yet. Beta 3 might be released today so hopefully it gets fixed

My scrolling actually just stopped working with this post riiiight below screen…
Upvoting to save others from that fate.
- Hahah so close! Cheers!

Another fix: Drag all comments (or posts) from left-to-right in an oscillating motion, and this seems to “unstuck” the vertical scrolling. I think what’s happening is that a given comment (or post) is getting stuck ~1 pixel off-center, so the app assumes you’re still focusing on the comment’s horizontal scroll pane (rather than the overall page’s vertical scroll pane).

I guessed that waiting would fix it, but it’s nice to know why.

TestFlighting Mlem on iOS will give you a much better, native experience for using Lemmy on mobile.
- I thought the same until I used Wefwef, have you tried it?
  Mlem doesn’t have iPad support yet. The app opens in a tiny letterbox view, with the sides of the screen not usable, so it isn’t currently a good solution for me.
  
  I used WefWef for a while but PWAs don’t feel as snappy on my phone.
- And the Test Flight for Memmy as well, although i believe it is full but should be on the app store in the next 24 hrs.
  
  Memmy is my second favourite after wefwef. It’s more feature rich, but I like the design of wefwef much better on iPad.
  It’s exciting to have all these amazing apps in rapid development.
- Memmy is better!

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