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.
- β404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/siteβ 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.
I posted a comment here and seemed to accept it but it didn't seem to appear yet, will edit this post with the content if it shows up, after it posted, I couldn't click any buttons on the page, was getting JS errors in the console.
Ok it appeared this time.
When I try to Subscribe to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] the button does nothing, the browser console has an error: Uncaught SyntaxError: Invalid or unexpected token (at [email protected]:5:125811)
Seems to be some JSON escaping issue: https://imgur.com/a/HXlg2IN
Also when I tried to click the code block button in the comment box, it just refreshed the page and I lost my comment. (edit: I think this is due to the issue below about loading the post from a new tab and all JS on the page being broken after that)
Is there an easy way to open communities from other instances in this instance? e.g. when looking for communities to subscribe to here: https://browse.feddit.de/ the links all go to the instance the community is hosted on which is not convenient to subscribe to on this instance where my profile is. Any tips for that?
When I originally posted my comment there was no preview button but now suddenly there's a preview button, strange. (edit: I think this is due to the issue below about loading the post from a new tab and all JS on the page being broken after that)
Took about 15 secs for my comment to post.
Edit: I found the cause for the issue. If I load this post using the URL directly (like in a new tab: https://lemmy.world/post/15786 ) I get a JS error on the page load and all interactivity on the page is broken: https://imgur.com/a/OkoCYn1
If I browse to the post from another page such as a the community page, everything works.
Edit again: Seems like this issue only seems to affect this post specifically, weird
Edit again again: seems to be an issue with this specific comment in this post: https://lemmy.world/comment/31885 the JS object seems to be completely missing the 'path' property, can see my post object vs that post object causing the error: https://imgur.com/a/48fORC1
Could you by any chance submit this as issue with Lemmy, because seems like some bug caused this. https://github.com/LemmyNet
No problem, I submitted the issue report about the exception loading this post: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1147 I searched and didn't find any other mention of this. The other exception when loading the https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] community seems to be fixed now.