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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud@lemmy.world to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

In this post I will list the known issues or possible improvements for Lemmy.world.

Please comment with any issue or area for improvement you see and I will add it here.

Remember: this instance was only started June 1st so a lot of troubleshooting and tweaking to be done.

Issues can be:

  • Local (lemmy.world) (also performance issues)
  • Lemmy software issues
  • Other software related (apps/Fediverse platforms etc)
  • Remote server related
  • (User error? ...)

Known issues

Websockets issues

There are some issues with the Websockets implementation used in Lemmy, which handles the streaming. Websockets will be removed in version 0.18 so let's hope these issues will be all gone then!

  • Top posts page gets a stream of new posts ? Websockets issue
  • You're suddenly in another post than you were before > Websockets issue
  • Your profile will briefly display another name/avatar in the top right corner

Spinning wheel issues

Error handling is not one of Lemmy's strongpoints. Sometimes something goes wrong, but instead of getting an error, the button will have a 'spinning wheel' that lasts until eternity. These are some of the known cases:

  • You want to create an account but the username is already taken
  • You want to create an account but the username is too long (>20 characters)
  • You want to create an account but the password is too long
  • You want to create a community but the name is already taken
  • You want to create a community but the name is not in all lowercase letters
  • You want to create a post over 2000 characters
  • You want to post something in a language that isn't allowed in the community

Other issues

  • Federation not always working; Apparently not everything gets synced all the time. This needs troubleshooting.
  • β€œ404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site” This sometimes happens when the Lemmy app container is very busy. Needs troubleshooting

Enhancement requests

  • Can themes be added? > To be checked if this can be done without changing code.

For support with issues at Lemmy.world, go to the Lemmy.world Support community.

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[-] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Federation issue: local posts not showing when following an account from Mastodon/Calckey/Alloma. To be verified if this is lemmy.world specific

This is a limitation of Lemmy and the devs don't seem interested in adding that feature.

[-] silveroranges@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am trying to move some of my posts from my community on reddit to here, and they are very long. I am able to post short posts, but not long ones. It gives me that spinning circle after I hit post, and I have waited 10 minutes and it hasn't posted. Works great for shorter things. Is there a character limit im hitting or maybe a spam filter since everything of mine is new?

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[-] TheDarkBanana87@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Dear @ruud@lemmy.world ,

From my personal opinion, i would like to add 2 QoL improvements.

  • The ability to go back to the community pages, with clicking on the empty area of a thread ( maybe like what Reddit implements ). The reason is that we can quickly navigate to another post
  • A Scroll to Top / Back to Top Button

But this is just a suggestion based on my personal experience using Lemmy

Thank you :D

[-] MBM@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Was Lemmy.world down just now?

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I don't think so... what did you see?

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

By the way; now it was, I briefly restarted the database.

[-] griffen62@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Probably an idea for the future, but a status page with upcoming maintenance or ongoing issues would help quell some of these kinds of requests. I assume you probably don't have much in the way of redundancy at the moment?

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[-] SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Issue: Sometimes, when scrolling or reading, the screen jumps up. Making it very difficult to read comments.

Improvement: Open post by clicking on the text, not just title and comment button, makes it easier on phones.

And collapseing comment chains, which makes it easier to scroll and read posts with a lot of comments, especially if some comment chains are not relevant to you.

[-] luds@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

If I do Posts -> All -> Top Week (or any other Top) it will show the top posts at first, but after waiting a minute or so the page will update with new posts at the top. This is usually how I browse and it makes it unusable.

Another thing is when I tried to login after signing up, the loading wheel just spun forever without any error messages. Turns out I needed to verify my email.

[-] solrize@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It could be useful to have sub-communities like Usenet had newsgroup hierarchies. E.g. within c/tools there could be c/tools/drills, c/tools/saws, or whatever. On deaddit (formerly called reddit) they end up making dozens of related top level subreddits scattered around but I think it is good to add some kind of organizational structure.

[-] dappererror@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Can't sign in, had to create another account on another instance just to ask?

Hit login and it just spins forever?

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[-] Esjee@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

This is something which is definitely not a priority. But accounts getting badges or something similar for completing milestones would be pretty amazing. Currently the profiles look really empty

[-] thatdosbox@mstdn.ca 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@ruud FYI, not sure if something is backed up between lemmy dot world and the mastodon server I'm on. I follow the c/gunners community from mastodon, and was getting updates in my home feed until yesterday. Posts (like this) are viewable, and can be replied to, by pasting the URL into search, but they're no longer showing up in the home feed.

(edit) and I see the reply shows up on lemmy πŸ€”β€‹

[-] damipereira@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Search by community is not working. If you go to search page, and select a community and click search, it will search in all communities anyway.

[-] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Former reddit user making the switch the best I can.

  • Found this guide and made an account on Lemmy.world
  • went on my merry way and found several communities here and there
  • tried to install the mobile client Jerboa and got blocked because the server is older than the app version β€” and for some reason the former versions crash on my phone

➑ am I right to assume that the end user risks losing its app mobile access everytime there's a update from the app and / or the server?

  • in the end I ended up downloading Thunder which allowed me to login to lemmy.world without version issues
[-] GrouchyLady@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

When I right click to open a community in a new tab, the "joined" button is enabled at the top right even though I haven't joined it. I can still click a post and join the community, but it's a bit confusing that it seems to carry over from the prior community, which I am a member of. Is anyone experiencing anything similar?

[-] md5crypto@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

#1 - Ctrl+Enter or Cmd+Enter to post comments or threads. #2 - Create the equivalent of Reddit's Front Page.

[-] Nefarim@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

When attempting to sign in on the Thunder app to the lemmy.world instance I get the error "LemmyApiException: Record not found" whether I use my username or e-mail I signed up with as the username.

I am signed in to the instance in my web browser and have already verified my e-mail, so I know my account is active.

[-] Inept@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I have an issue to share and it's not major, but some of the links are wrong depending on the UI.

For instance, in the default UI, the link for your Privacy Policy page is This, but it should be This Instead (Note the trailing hyphen on the bad/dead link).

Of course, that's not a major concern and it is very minor, but misplaced legal docs could be problematic long-term.

[-] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I fixed that link, but actually lemmy.world/legal should redirect to legal.lemmy.world, which it apparently doesn't always do. So we'll look into that as well.

Thanks for pointing this out.

[-] ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can we have more sort options? Like, "Top - Hour" ?

I used to browse reddits all/rising. I find engaging a post early on is the best way to participate in an active discussion. New/Top Today just aren't returning the right posts.

(Couldn't find this suggestion anywhere else in this thread)

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[-] Mac@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Getting lots of 'timeout' today.

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