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.
- “404: 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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Federation not always working; Apparently not everything gets synced all the time. This needs troubleshooting.
I thought I was suffering from this, but then I added English to my profile languages, and suddenly many posts on other instances that I could not see before were now visible.
Oh that’s a good tip…
On the homepage lemmy.world, new posts keep appearing at the top even when not sorting by new. This causes annoying layout shift, especially when browsing all communities, not just local ones. (I use Firefox / Win 10)
I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11
This seems like a really big problem to me. I tried searching lemmy for it, but have not found anything conclusive.
I found a post or two claiming that the issue is that the API is implemented using websockets only, so it’s not as simple as just turning it off. I really hope that is not the case, since I currently can’t read anything on the frontpage that takes more than a few seconds!
See this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008
It will be fixed in the next release of lemmy, 0.18.
I am very new to Lemmy.world. I have noticed though there is no icon displayed on firefox for the bookmark (but there is for Chrome / DuckDuckGo browser).
Edit 2023-07-02 - For me this appears to have been fixed :)
Yep, also an issue here (Firefox ftw!)
On opening a new tab or window with a lemmy instance, I frequently find that I am not intially logged in. I am logged in, and refreshing the page a few times affirms this. It does not necessarily require a cacheless refresh (ctrl+f5). It also occurs regardless of what lemmy instance I’m browsing.
This started immediately after the hackening event of the other day. I’ll play with what’s in site storage in firefox later on and see what happens.
Edit: Ok something very odd just happened. I did the refresh thing and it briefly showed me logged in as @andybug@lemmy.world, for reasons unknown. It didn’t stay logged in as (s)he, but very briefly flashed it as such.
Edit2: I deleted cache, webtoken, and other detritus in firefox, and refreshed the page to login again. I logged in, and the site served me the logged-out homepage until I refreshed again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Edit3: I was logged out completely this morning. No explanation as to why as yet, I’ll test tomorrow and see what browser storage looks like
😅
Test comment; doing some federation testing with admins of other servers.
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.
First off, thanks for running this! It is spectacular how quickly this took off once the Reddit Apocalypse started. Second, anybody having problems upvoting/downvoting on the main page? I click the arrow to vote and it flashes, but then it goes back to gray. If I go into the actual post, I can vote okay, but not from the main page.
Can I just quickly mention that I for one really appreciate the work done by @ruul to keep this instance working as well as it does , thank you.
You’re welcome
hear hear
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
That sounds like a good enhancement request for https://github.com/LemmyNet
So I’ve made 3 posts now and chose pictures to upload. Everytime it takes my photo and turns it sideways on the post. I’ve noticed that if I go to my gallery and edit the photo I’ll rotate it and save it as a copy. I’ll then rotate it back so it’s the correct oriention and save it as a copy again. I’ll then make a post using that copy of the new photo that I rotated twice and the photo will upload in the correct orientation. I think this is a Lemmy issue overall because it happened over 2 instances.
Post 0.18 update on desktop, the domain of external links is no longer visible (unless you hover over the link)
I miss this, as it goes to contextualising and trust issues - knowing whether a link goes to apnews, dailywire or theonion is a big deal, let alone the risk of malware/etc.
Could this be re-added at some point?
I’m experiencing a login issue related to Microsoft Edge on Mac OS.
Upon entering login credentials, the purple LOGGED IN popup box appears in lower left, but I am still not logged in. Upper right still shows SIGN IN. If I try to do anything, it redirects me to login page, credentials are entered, returned to home page again, but not logged in. Repeat ad infinitum.
Chrome and Safari work fine.
Browser: Microsoft Edge.Version 115.0.1901.183 (Official build) (x86_64)
OS: macOS 11.7.8 (20G1351)
Would deleting the browser cache help in this case?
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
Some communities aren’t updating on lemmy.world
Specifically, I moderate /c/worldbuilding@lemmy.ml and I noticed that lemmy.world’s side is not updating. No new posts from lemmy.ml’s side, and their side shows 300+ subscribers while mine shows ~80
Not sure if this has been mentioned. But as I just joined I was looking through communities to join and noticed there were several with the same name but just lower case instead or with a space between words.
Should community names be case sensitive and no spaces to make sure there are fewer duplicates/lookalike communities?
