Good question sometimes I find posts that have been posted 3 years ago in Hot... It seems really broken

Aye

Wtf just do your calls in the stairway awkwardly smiling at passing coworkers like the rest of us

It opens the item (post, comment) in the instance that it was created on. For example I'm on https://sh.itjust.works so if I click on that button of your post it opens this post on https://lemmy.world, which is your instance.

I added a mark as read button to the posts but now patiently waiting till the WebSockets -> REST API transition is complete so it can get merged.

The front end needs a lot of work… Every bit is appreciated and the maintainers are pretty fast at reviewing and providing feedback which is nice to see.

Let’s not kid ourselves UI/UX needs a lot of work not just a little, but it’s making progress and all done by volunteers and that’s impressive on it’s own.

Another problem is that you never actually receive a confirmation if your application was received and/or rejected, you are just sorta stuck in limbo after applying.