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

Perhaps a personal preference, but I find it a lot more intuitive when clicking the post title opens the link to the content (webpage, image, etc) rather than going to the comments. To follow a post's link, I need to click on the "image", and that feels odd.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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€‹

[–] Inept 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 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.

[–] solrize 1 points 2 years ago

I can't seem to log in from mobile Firefox (Fennec F-droid 114.0.0). I enter login and password and the spinner appears and stays forever. Switching view to "desktop site" doesn't help. I'm able to login from actual desktop Firefox just fine. Is this the right place to report? Is it already here? This is a very long thread.

[–] slashzero 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)
  • ~~Not sure if you are aware, but I never received any emails about my signup being accepted. I just tried to log in on a whim and saw it worked. You might want to check your smtp settings to verify emails are going out.~~ the approval email was in my spam folder.
  • Saving (new or edit) a comment is taking 20-30 seconds (just timed saving this edit).
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[–] Solvena 1 points 2 years 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).

[–] phillycodehound 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks for the update!

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

Not sure if this has been mentioned. But as I just joined I was looking through communities to join and noticed there were several with the same name but just lower case instead or with a space between words.

Should community names be case sensitive and no spaces to make sure there are fewer duplicates/lookalike communities?

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

Looks like the "forgot password" button is broken. Nothing happens when clicking it on both android and linux firefox on incognito without addons.

Edit: also broken on lemmy.ml so nothing for you I guess...

[–] TomMasz 1 points 2 years ago

Search results are pretty much unusable. Firefox 114.0.2 (64-bit) on macOS 12.6.6

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

For some reason for me webapp doesn't work properly on mobile Firefox. In chrome it seems fine.

Problems I noticed are: Can't open the "hamburger menu" it just says "expand here", I can't upvote/downvote stuff, and pictures are opened full screen instead of just getting enlarged under title.

Anyone else has these issues? Any ideas how to solve this (assuming there is something I can do)?

[–] Homeomorphic 1 points 2 years ago

I cant seem to set my default communities tab for the front page to be 'all' on settings. Saving the setting and refreshing still makes Local the default tab.

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

Desktop UI optimization would be nice. As it stands currently the site is using maybe 1/3 of my screen real estate and makes everything look super cramped/condensed.

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[–] Nefarim 1 points 2 years ago

When attempting to sign in on the Thunder app to the lemmy.world instance I get the error "LemmyApiException: Record not found" whether I use my username or e-mail I signed up with as the username.

I am signed in to the instance in my web browser and have already verified my e-mail, so I know my account is active.

[–] Quercus001 1 points 2 years ago

I was setting up my account earlier today and I tried to set up 2 factor authentication but experienced some errors. I clicked the box and reloaded my settings but I wasn't able to enter an email or anything into the authentication method.

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

Creating a new community, and the form is completely filled out, but when I press "create" it circles back to the top of the form. Also what is the difference between Name and Display Name. Name is what it keeps highlighting.

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

Maybe it's already taken? Or the name is >20 characters? Or not all-lowercase?

[–] Chickens 1 points 2 years ago

That was it. I had a capital letter in there. Where did you find those rules?

[–] Audalin 1 points 2 years ago

Occasionally the setting to use Subscribed as the default tab is reset (mobile browser version). Perhaps it happens during server restarts?

In any tab, new posts are inserted in real time regardless of the sorting method chosen.

When a post is open, its title and post text are sometimes replaced with those of another post. Comments remain, and reloading fixes that.

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