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Lemmy.World Announcements

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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.

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

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd love a longer bio. I can only fit a few links in there right now. It's definitely code, not config, but I haven't found if it's set in lemmy-ui or in the API/DB. I could also understand if that's too expensive, but would like to see it addressed.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Could you raise the request with the devs? https://github.com/LemmyNet

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Was Lemmy.world down just now?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It could be useful to have sub-communities like Usenet had newsgroup hierarchies. E.g. within c/tools there could be c/tools/drills, c/tools/saws, or whatever. On deaddit (formerly called reddit) they end up making dozens of related top level subreddits scattered around but I think it is good to add some kind of organizational structure.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Search by community is not working. If you go to search page, and select a community and click search, it will search in all communities anyway.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 ๐Ÿค”โ€‹

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Former reddit user making the switch the best I can.

  • Found this guide and made an account on Lemmy.world
  • went on my merry way and found several communities here and there
  • tried to install the mobile client Jerboa and got blocked because the server is older than the app version โ€” and for some reason the former versions crash on my phone

โžก am I right to assume that the end user risks losing its app mobile access everytime there's a update from the app and / or the server?

  • in the end I ended up downloading Thunder which allowed me to login to lemmy.world without version issues
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone has probably mentioned it already but Jerboa is giving me this error when trying to use lemmy.world

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Try out Liftoff in the meantime.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can we have more sort options? Like, "Top - Hour" ?

I used to browse reddits all/rising. I find engaging a post early on is the best way to participate in an active discussion. New/Top Today just aren't returning the right posts.

(Couldn't find this suggestion anywhere else in this thread)

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

On Android Client Jerboa v0.0.37 & 36 "Server version (0.1.4 is underthe minimum supported version (0.18). Please inform your administrator and login to another instance, or sign out and use the default instance."

On other android clients: Liftoff & Lemur: lemmy.world cannot be found as an instance.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 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

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