The instance who hosts me (slrpnk) defaults to Alexandrite, a 3rd party Lemmy web client. It’s a good move considering how unstable and buggy the stock Lemmy client is.

But it has a bizarre defect. Most of the time, all the icons for actions below comments on the notifications page are blank. On some rare occasions they will mysteriously render. But most of the time I have to guess on the position of an icon, hover, and wait for a text popup. Upvotes and downvotes are indistinguishable.

There are also times when the whole page is a disaster and I must do a hard-refresh. The refreshing causes the server to work harder, and also often triggers slrpnk’s anti-bot javascript test (which is incidental and unrelated to Alexandrite).