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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.
  • “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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[-] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Was Lemmy.world down just now?

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

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

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

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

[-] griffen62@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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?

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

Well we're in the baby phase now, so most maintenance is ad-hoc. But after that it's a good idea. About redundancy: it's a single VPS. But when the VPS or datacenter breaks, we have a backup, and it runs in Docker so it's just restoring the backup, starting the containers and redirect the DNS

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

Hi. I'm trying to build community. I write all the letters in lowercase. I don't use symbols. I can't create it, though.

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

Which name? Sometimes the community already was created and deleted. I then need to purge it for the name to becoma available again.

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

Yes, it was already created and deleted. I've purged it, now you can create a new one

[-] matt@lemmy.world 1 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.

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

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)

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

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!

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

I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11

[-] wit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008

It will be fixed in the next release of lemmy, 0.18.

[-] northernscrub@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've discovered a pattern to my logout error as referred to here: https://lemmy.world/comment/1144382

It occurs specifically when I navigate to a community page, without visiting the homepage first. If I navigate specifically to, for example, lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld, I'll be logged out. However, if I visit lemmy.world and then visit lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld, I'll be logged in.

I wonder if this is a bug with SameSite in the JWT? Reddit's token, for example, has a value of None, where Lemmy's has a value of Strict. I've changed that to None for the moment, we'll see if that changes anything

[-] UWbadgers16@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[-] j4k3@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
  • 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

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

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?

[-] Nerdlinger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I scanned through the comments here and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet, but I would love, love, love to have an option added to settings to open links in a new tab (or possibly windows if some people would prefer that). The current behavior is to open in the current tab, which I am so unaccustomed to I keep closing the tab when I’m done with it rather than hitting the back arrow.

It’s quite jarring to not open in a new tab these days, especially for external links.

[-] kairos@midwest.social 1 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.

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

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

[-] TheDarkBanana87@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year 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

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

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?

[-] 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.

[-] dystop@lemmy.world 0 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)

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.

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

This would be useful indeed. Check the Lemmy GitHub if it isn't already requested, else you can.

[-] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Might be more of a question than a "known issue" or "request" but, do you want individual users to be able to see the modlog for the entire Lemmy.world instance? For instance I can see not only who has been added/removed as a moderator, but what posts/comments have been removed/restored.

But also, thank you for running this, and also for having posts like this up which greatly help people like me know you're working on stuff.

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

This is also a feature. Transparency is important!

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