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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by ruud to c/lemmyworld
 

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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[–] Marko 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Anyone else having issues with login on mobile devices? I can't login at all, but I can normally enter on desktop. Tried in Brave and in Chrome, it doesn't work–after pressing button it keeps loading forever.

EDIT: turns out I kept entering the wrong password entire time. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈπŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ

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[–] godless 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Issue:

So, I've created !childfree as a local community, seemingly normal. Only, it doesn't seem to be accessible to anyone locally.

Meaning, https://lemmy.world/c/childfree gives me a 404. Instead, I have to open it as https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - initially I thought maybe I had made an error creating the community and added the instance, but trying to replicate it shows that @ is not a permitted character, so the problem must have come from elsewhere.

From other instances now I can access it just fine: https://latte.isnot.coffee/c/[email protected] or https://feddit.de/c/[email protected] (where the @instance is the default behaviour). Locally however, that should not have happened.

Even if I enter the community locally, and click on the !childfree just below the name of the community, it gives me a local 404 (see below).

Any idea what's going on here, and how to resolve the problem? Since we are redirecting users from our sub here, it's creating quite some headaches... And apparently users trying to subscribe from other instances also don't see any posts for up to 48h (tried that myself).

Edit: Apparently I cannot access the community via feddit.de. The other one works fine though - I do have accounts on either instance.

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[–] fhein 1 points 2 years ago

Not specific to lemmy.world, but it would be nice if some frontend programmer wanted to contribute a PR for a compact view mode. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/552

[–] shauno 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] zabil 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have only signed up today, so this may be something I'm doing on my end. But on the home screen, if I sort by "All", as opposed to "subscribed" or "local", after about a minute posts start streaming down the page at a very quick pace. It looks like when people comment on discord. I have tested this on both my phone and pc, and they both do it in my browser (firefox each time). Unfortunatley I cannot screenshot it, since that would just be a static image, and I don't know how to record my screen.

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[–] haddie7979 1 points 2 years ago (4 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.

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[–] rivr 1 points 2 years ago

Regarding issues: sometimes upper right account menu shows not my nickname but some weird random names - last time it was IntergalacticZygote. What happens there? Was that already been reported?

As for enhancements: you probably read that already but I wish it would be possible to change the interface; I'm not a fan of big bulky rounded elements. Also comments highlighting by mouse cursor over or click would be a nice thing to have.

[–] BlitzFitz 1 points 2 years ago

Any thoughts in adding an interface enhancements, such as those featured in the Reddit Enhancement Suite? I loved this interface with Reddit, especially the way it directly integrated the Media onto the site itself, as opposed to opening everything up via the links.

And loved the option to open the links/comments into a separate tab, as opposed to opening up in the same tab.

Great site/instance so far! Looking forward to seeing how this is improved over time!

[–] sparky 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Communities that have been broken due to the bug regarding remote moderators are still unusable from outside lemmy.world, breaking federation: https://lemmy.world/post/209377

Assistance is needed from the administrators for all such communities.

[–] ruud 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please DM me if there's a broken community and I'll fix it.

[–] sparky 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Thanks, there are a number of them. I’ll DM you a list. (For future reference, do you have to fix this manually in Postgres?)

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