There should be a way to set "my posting language is English" in my profile settings, so that it's automatically set to English when I post, evern single time, unless I go out of my way to choose something different for a particular post.

Did the whole system just go down for a few minutes? I kept getting an API error and it kept switching to HTTP (not HTTPS) ... Seems a bit snappier though now that its back up

Is there a server status web page for future reference?

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 :)

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Enhancement requests: Not sure if this is better addressed lemmy-wide or here, but: New users may not know the difference between instances. Would having the "Communities" tab default to All instances be better than Local instances?

I think lemmy.world need to up the "Federation worker count" under the server settings. The more data that needs to be federated, the higher this number should be.

Improvement: Support for search operators

For example:

• Currently, when I use the """ character on Lemmy search, it searches posts/comments with only the """ on them.

My lemmy search improvement requests:

• "hello world" should strictly show comments/posts matching Hello World, case insensitive by default (with case-sensitive check box)
  • like: "Hello Everyone" shows posts/comments with the phrase "hello everyone" on them but not "hello" and/or "everyone"
• -${KEYWORD} or -${COMMUNITY} excludes a specific keyword or community from the search result. Using -"Hello World" filters results with the phrase "Hello World" on them. If it's a community like -"community@lemmy.instance", it will exclude the community from the results.
• * asterisks - wildcard
• | pipe - logical OR search.

Would love to see 2-factor authentication (app-based) implemented at some point. Not a pressing issue right now, but once everything stabilizes I think it would be a valuable security feature long-term.

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.~~

My homepage keeps dynamically adding posts so when I scroll, it loses my place on the page. Is there a setting that I'm missing here?

Any chance we could have thumbnails show up on the index page?

Edit: On second thought, thumbnails work as long as your post is an image you uploaded. But it doesn't pull up og:images it seems, leading to those blank squares.

Issue:

Is it just me, or has "Hot" not refreshed with any new posts in over a day? I know there are posts coming in, but my Subscribed, Local, and All feeds have been static when sorting by "Hot".

edit: I think it's fixed on my end. I'm finally seeing newer stuff when sorting by Hot

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

Enhancement requests: Again, might be better addressed lemmy-wide, but as a mod, I think there is no way to "sticky" or "pin" a reply to an existing thread, so that it stays at the top. This would be useful for "official" replies in the voice of a moderator, and I imagine it will be useful in future if mods ever need to lock posts and have to explain why.

Just joined! Thanks!

One small thing i would add for sign up is giving a message about waiting for being approved for the community, i was confused that it sent me back to the homepage until reading the docs.

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.

• The message about choosing a language when making a post is not clear. Like, is selecting a language good or bad for visibility versus using the default "undetermined."

• What are the best practices for uploading an image on a post here, what about technical posts that need a gallery, gifs, mp4, etc.?

• as far as possible sub communities: astrophotography, telescopes, bicycle, bikewrench, arduino, esp32, hardware hacking, fedora, Linux hardware, and electrical engineering were some I regularly browsed or participated in on deddit. Not that these are needed, but I wish I could drag these communities over here

Issue with lemmy in general: there's no error message when your username is taken, or password doesn't meet the requirements. I had to figure out by trial and error why my application didn't go through

I like the new icon!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

So I can see that a member has posted something to my new community on another server yesterday, but it still hasn't filtered back to here specifically from beehaw