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Fixes for buggy Lemmy stuff? (self.ergomechkeyboards)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by jhelvy to c/ergomechkeyboards
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The decision was made to blow up the Reddit community and come here, so we have to make this work. But I'm already seeing a bunch of issues with Lemmy. Posting this so hopefully we can find solutions. Issues:

  • Search-ability: I can't find people. When I search for users it simply doesn't work. Edit: Also apparently a client thing. Sucks though that if you choose the wrong client whole features just aren't supported.
  • Messages: Pretty bare bones interface. I guess it's good enough to send you discord so you can have a conversation there.
  • Replies: Looks like you can only reply to posts and not other replies 🤦‍♂️...so much for tractable conversations. This is my single biggest complaint about Mastodon - it's almost impossible to follow a single conversation. Really hope this will be addressed. Edit: looks like this was a client thing. Phew!
  • Updates: I just tried to login on a different client but couldn't because the instance I'm on isn't up to date enough with the minimum support version.
  • Clients: I've tried Thunder and attempting Jerboa (can't yet for the above reason), any other better ones?

I hope these are all fixable. The replies thing is pretty terrible.

Just so this isn't an entirely downer post, here's what I'm liking about Lemmy:

  • Ad free: 🎉 Love love love this.
  • Open source: Look, open source projects can be a little janky. But open source feels like a part of the DNA of this community, so I'm always happy to see everyone using FOSS.
  • Community support: No matter what the interface, the people make the community, and it's been pretty cool to see everyone just keep posting and carrying on over here. Like, it's been a pretty smooth transition so far.
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[–] Moghul 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Not sure why you're having these issues but at least for me...

I can find people

Never tried to message people so idk

I can reply to replies just fine, have been doing it in my own threads but I don't use Mastodon

I use Jerboa fine. Lemmy.world is holding off on updating until Lemmy brings back captcha and that's ok. Never tried any other client.

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

Here's a reply to my own reply

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

And another self reply

[–] jhelvy 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yup, it was a client thing. Thunder wouldn't let me reply to replies

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

That's good! Can you edit the post text? That way it won't be confusing to people who don't read the comments and you can check if that works too

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

Just did, and yes edits apparently work! That's a big relief - edits and replies are like 75% of communication on Reddit.

[–] apfel 2 points 2 years ago

You can even edit the title on lemmy 🤓

[–] Aldoo 1 points 2 years ago

Thunder's UI is not very obvious, but you can definitely do that: just swipe a post to the left until you see the "reply to" icon, then release the finger.

[–] coralof 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I can whole-heartedly recommend Memmy app for those using iOS. They are also starting a beta for an Android app as well. The development speed is insane, and the app is already reminiscent of Apollo!

All my Reddit stuff is gone, so I’m here permanently now. Having a well-designed, functional app definitely makes a huge difference.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Months later and Memmy has been abandoned. Try Avelon or Lemmios. They’re actually native unlike Memmy.

[–] richard_wagner 2 points 2 years ago

I just downloaded Memmy. Thanks for the recommendation - the installation process was simple.

[–] jhelvy 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I feel like we could all benefit heavily from a sticky post with some basic info for people coming here. Link to this post for good clients, link to obosob's post on why we're on Lemmy now, any other helpful stuff for Lemmy newbs like me. u/obosob what do you think?

[–] apfel 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Check out this post for other client options :)

Replies work fine for me as well, as noted in the other comment.

[–] jhelvy 3 points 2 years ago

Yup, I was using Thunder and it just wasn't working. I updated the post.

[–] ink_black_night 1 points 2 years ago

thanks, i had only found Jerboa so far and could not log in... The above should definitely be a sticky post. Now using connect for lemmy, which feels much better than the web!!

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

This is a good post and it's great that you're searching for ways to improve and optimize your experience on Lemmy... but to set expectations... Lemmy isn't as polished as reddit, it's not going to become so overnight, and if it does become more polished it's going to be because we each individually do things to make it so.

  • It sounds like you're struggling with janky mobile clients. You could try several and write up a review of what works well on each. Jerboa v0.35 doesn't have the comment reply problems you experienced, but DOES have login problems on older Lemmy instances. You can either wait for the v0.18.1 upgrade on your instance (a release candidate for it was tagged today, I expect the upgrade is only days away) or it's possible to install Jerboa 0.34 via F-droid or Obtainium and that will let you login to Lemmy instances that are still running v0.17.x (and writing up a how-to with screenshots could help others with this problem).
  • Subscribing to support communities and answering questions can help devs focus on improving the software faster by reducing the support load on them.
  • Filing clear big reports in GitHub and tagging dupe reports will again help devs focus on improving things rather than tending to repeat issue reports.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

do you have links to some support communities, I have a few questions but not sure where to ask them or search for answers

[–] PriorProject 1 points 2 years ago

https://lemmy.ml/c/lemmy_support is a good one. Tag me in a comment on your first couple posts if you want and I'll help out if I can, I know a lot of the new user faqs at least... or I'll likely find it scrolling by new anyway.

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

My biggest issue with Lemmy is I don't think it's on search engines?

I don't get anything from google searching about keyboards and lemmy.

That's really a major problem for me. One of the huge benefits of reddit was I could find so many helpful things for my hobbies just via Google etc

[–] jhelvy 3 points 2 years ago

This is a pretty significant long term issue. Overall search-ability is just an issue with federated content.

On the plus side it looks like I can reply to comments after all. It just won't let me know Thunder (definitely not using that client now)

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

Are there known issues using Lemmy via a desktop browser? My comments don't get processed ...

[–] iandoug 1 points 2 years ago

Tho that one did ... curious.