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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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[–] thatdosbox@mstdn.ca 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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€‹

[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Could the Upvoted/Downvoted/Hidden tabs be added to profiles? Would really be useful when searching something you've already seen.

[–] rr7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This!! Especially Upvoted

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[–] rr7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't know if it a bug or not, but my Posts are nowhere to be found in my profile.

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[–] dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

here is just a random list of features/improvements i would like to see

  • save sorting preferences in comment sections. right now it defaults to hot.
  • improve the hot/active algorithms. at the moment they don't seems to actually show popular posts like their reddit hot/popular counterparts. could be a symptom of being much smaller, but i never see any of the lemmy communities i follow that aren't the biggest ones, and on reddit i can see the small communities i follow.
  • better syncing between instances. i also use kbin, and that seems to have issues with cross content at times. i can't see comments sometimes, and votes are completely different on both platforms.
  • more granular "Top X" filters
  • search by date range, and various other improvements to search. (anything is better than reddit search, but the ability to search this platform is probably more important than people realize)
  • more embed integrations for things like gifs and youtube videos. generally, try and keep people on the site.
  • open links in a new tab by default. on mobile
  • a back button on mobile, not a menu button.
  • account/community migration/merging
  • community themes, and the ability to turn them off.

this last one isn't really a request, it's more of an ultimatum.

  • whatever the fuck new.reddit.com is/does/looks like, DON'T DO THAT. make this site look as much like old.reddit.com as possible and never change that.
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[–] quinten@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi Ruud!

Is it perhaps possible to change the url of the Lemme.world logo in the left top corner? It shows the frontpage, but maybe it is better to show your subscriptions by hot?

https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/Hot/page/1

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[–] Solvena@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Something seems to have broken specifically when using Firefox. Trying to open https://lemmy.world results in "404 - deleted" in my case. I can open lemmy.world just fine on Safari (iOS) and Edge (Win11).

[–] labuzan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

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

Would deleting the browser cache help in this case?

[–] richie510@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am just getting an infinite spinner when trying to post to !nuggets@lemmy.world Just trying to post something here to see if I can do anything...

edit: just saw the 2000 character limit. will adjust my post...

edit2: i was way under 2000 characters. Finally after trying everything else, I just didnt select the language "english" and it went through (slowly) without issue.

[–] EsotericEmbryo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone has probably mentioned it already but Jerboa is giving me this error when trying to use lemmy.world

[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Try out Liftoff in the meantime.

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On the main page, it seems like there's a stream of stuff always loading. How do I pause it?

[–] ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] le__el@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I also had the same issue on my first login (the email was verified, btw). The login button just went spinning and nothing happens. Trying the login on Jerboa gave me invalid credentials (it wasn't a mistype, because I used a password manager).

The workaround I did was to do a password reset and use a simpler one (was 50+ chars with special chars on, then changed to 32 chars and no special chars).

Not sure if what fixed was the reset itself, or the new password.

After this, the login went smooth on both the website and the app.

EDIT: And when posting this, the post submit button also kept spinning (the more than 200+ chars issue). But trying in a new tab, the message was actually sent.

And some minute later, on the old tab the message was sent, but the OP post changed from the "improvements and issues" to "The inability to post multiple pictures is holding Lemmy back.", but the comments below mine where for the "improvements and issues", while the comment above where to the other thread.

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[–] KitchenNo2246@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've very curious if Lemmy could scale to sizes similar to Reddit. Would that require creating multiple instances? Is there a max active users that an instance could handle? Is there a way to load balance between servers?

I suspect this hasn't been done since Lemmy just recently exploded in popularity.

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[–] haddie7979@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A couple of things:

None of my posts are showing up in my profile

I just created two new posts. They haven't show up in the community I posted to.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I do see 2 posts, in the College community (and your profile)

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