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Lemmy.World Announcements

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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I jabe a question, I noticed a few users with followers but I can't seem to follow anyone. I'm now questioning whether it was a fever dream. Can we follow users somehow? Sorry for the noob question, lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Test comment; doing some federation testing with admins of other servers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@[email protected] There are a lot of federation issues I've seen between lemmy.world and other instances.

I can't seem to subscribe to any communities from fanaticus.social or midwest.social. I made an account on fanaticus.social and can't subscribe the other way either.

There was a delay of days for https://midwest.social/post/689124 and https://lemmy.world/post/174998 to start syncing and they are still out of sync. (These have synchronized since my post here)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This post is on a beehaw community. Started by a lemmy.world user. As I understand it is on our local copy of the community that got pulled before the de-federation and only our users should be able to post on it.

Already that would be bad in my opinion since the copy is unmoderated and isolated. However it appears that some users replying are actually from other instances (not beehaw of course). This can only create confusion and further 'issues' with beehaw.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

First off, thank you for starting this instance. This may already be solved as I am a humble ex-redditor and only recently dabbled into the fedaverse since the twitter exodus.

But when I try and connect a subscribed community to my mastodon feed, I would like to see the post. Currently, the post and every comment from that post is aggregated into my mastodon feed.

Is there a way to just see the post headline?

Edit: spelling

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Some issues I've seen, mostly related to interactions with mastodon. I generally use Mastodon more so I've been playing with it.

  1. I can follow a lemmy community on my mastodon account but all the posters do not show their avatar. (actually i just checked again and my avatar shows up, but others don't, so perhaps there is a long delay?)

  2. I replied to a lemmy post on mastodon, and it showed up in lemmy, but when I'm logged in to lemmy and I try to post a reply to that it never publishes, the "post" button becomes the spinner and never makes the reply. This post for reference. This is the only one that feels like a bug.

  3. when someone on another lemmy instance makes a post on our community, a mastodon toot goes out, but it links to their post on their community. It makes it a little odd to follow a link and it takes me to another instance than the one hosting the community. Maybe this isn't a bug, just kinda annoying, kinda fediverse in general it's tough to bounce between instances. Example. Ok making that link, it's clear that the "post" originated from the instance. I guess this is just how it works. Message Board systems are a bit more tricky than twitter-style systems.

  4. When I make a post, it's got a warning Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content. and I have no idea what this is talking about.

  5. I wish the community page would let me sort the rows by Subscribers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I'll see which of these I can fix at server level and which are for the devs.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Duh. I couldn't log in because I'd entered my password incorrectly.
It would be nice if Lemmy told me, though, rather than just showing me an infinite spinner.

~~I can't log in on Firefox Mac or Safari Mac, but I can log in with Firefox Windows and Jeroba Android. On Mac, when I hit the Login button it just spins. No cookies are being set, and as far as I can tell there's no network activity. My password is less than 32 characters, which I read somewhere can cause issues.

edit: I tried spoofing Windows and Linux User-Agents on the Mac, but it didn't work.
edit2: I can log in from Safari now. Seems to be a Firefox configuration error, but I don't know how to troubleshoot it.~~

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

v18 released today, when can we expect the update to be rolled out here?

EDIT: Not a demand, just a genuine question, sorry if that came off abrasive

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've noticed that despite setting my default view to "All" in the user settings, my default view on the home page appears to be local.

It's not the worst thing ever, since hitting All is not a problem, just interesting it doesn't seem to work, unless I'm missing something!

Edit: It appears to have fixed itself, so maybe there was some time for the setting to kick in, although the local tab shows highlighted.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Known Issue: Probably a lemmy-wide issue. When new users sign up, there's no error message for "username has been taken", "username too short/long" or any other exception. You have to do trial-and-error to figure out how to get past the sign-in screen. Some sort of exception handling and user message would help greatly.

Immediate workaround would be to put something on the signup page to explain this ("username has to be between X to Y characters; if you see a spinning icon forever, chances are the username was taken already")

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I see a couple other comments about sign up issues and I’m having the same. Don’t see anything in my spam folder, though. Both submit buttons on the sign up/login pages just spin endlessly the last couple days. Someone said they managed to fix it by using "forgot password" on the login page but clicking that button does nothing. name’s same here as on midwest.social.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Uploaded images autorotate, and I couldn't find how to manually rotate it prior to postinf. I'm using web/android if it matters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy is an interesting alternative to Reddit. I like the fact that it uses instances, which means that communities can in theory exist without getting nuked.

I haven't been here too long, but here are some things I would like to see:

  1. When sorting posts by categories (especially by new), add the ability to pause real time updates.
  2. In the profile section, add a checkbox to unblur NSFW content permanently.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Couldn't a community get "nuked" if the instance manager decides to pull the plug? Seems even more fragile in that respect...

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Any idea why I can't open https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]? Mander.xyz should be federated. I just get 404: couldnt_find_community

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Up- and downvoting appears to be borked on this instance specifically. If I hit the buttons, they light up, my upvote is counted - and a split second later it disappears and the button greys out again.

If I reload the page sometimes the vote got counted in the background, sometimes it didn't.

This appears to affect other parts of the UI as well. Most of the time I expand an image, it expands for a split second, then the UI resets and the image is small again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was at least one other comment mentioning this: the possibility of making everything on the screen more compact. Everything takes too much space at the moment and I can't really get a good view of a discussion "at a glance". This is on desktop, haven't checked the app yet. Something at least as compact as old.reddit would be awesome. RiF was the golden standard for me in this sense, just pure discussion, using the entire real estate of the screen. Would be amazing to have that option here. I just checked, and I can literally see more words on my phone on RiF than here on my 1080p laptop screen. I know this is all new, so I don't wanna complain, but I feel like this is something many would agree with.

In the same vein, it would be nice to have the option of hiding all avatars, the user name is enough for me.

Oh and another thing, even though everything takes so much space, the "border" between comments is somehow not visually satisfying. Those lateral borders don't really help in my opinion. If they would extend to reveal the parent-child relationship between comments, at least they would have a function.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The modern "design" decision to squish everything into the center of the screen is soooo dumb. I really don't get the appeal of having to scroll twice as much or more just to get through a post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been trying to post something in c/casualconversation, but after clicking 'post', it gets stuck - spinning for hours, actually, and my message won't get through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could you provide a default icon that gets used for any communities that haven't selected one?

This page in particular would benefit from it as it currently looks like a very confusing categorised list.

Same for users too I guess. My avi might be a good choice :-)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Dear @[email protected] ,

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would love the ability to set a time for a post to publish. I've been posting a lot of news articles to /c/texas and I don't want users to feel like its spamming. If I could set a publish time that would be awesome

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That sounds like a good enhancement request for https://github.com/LemmyNet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Would it be possible to implement Settings -> Show Read as an option in your actual feed next to subscribed/local/all and sort type dropdown for easier access? Basically making the Settings option the default but quickly changeable when browsing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I think when clicking 'Post' it takes too long for it to be posted. I will see what I can do about this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, there's no local saving of the data in the post submition, so if there's a server or connection error, you lose whatever you typed.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When creating an account, it should show a dialogue saying check your email for verification. Right now it doesn't show anything which is confusing for new users who are trying to login for the first time.

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