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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm experiencing a login issue related to Microsoft Edge on Mac OS.

Upon entering login credentials, the purple LOGGED IN popup box appears in lower left, but I am still not logged in. Upper right still shows SIGN IN. If I try to do anything, it redirects me to login page, credentials are entered, returned to home page again, but not logged in. Repeat ad infinitum.

Chrome and Safari work fine.

Browser: Microsoft Edge.Version 115.0.1901.183 (Official build) (x86_64)

OS: macOS 11.7.8 (20G1351)

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

Would deleting the browser cache help in this case?

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Certain communities seem to be inaccessible from Lemmy.world and vice versa. For instance, if I try to access /c/boston in Lemmy.ml via lemmy.world/c/[email protected], I get a "404: couldnt_find_community" error. Similarly, trying to access /c/boston in Lemmy.world from either Kbin.social (via kbin.social/m/[email protected]) or Lemmy.ml (via lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]) both give 404 errors.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm works for me, I can find it and open it. Maybe lemmy.ml was overloaded?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah possibly! I think the second issue I mentioned is still occurring, though. Namely, lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] returns a 404 error (and also for Kbin.social).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then I think lemmy.ml hasn't discovered it yet, maybe there's delay on their server?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Perhaps! This should be triggered by searching "[email protected]" from lemmy.ml, correct?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've clicked on the logout button several times and I'm still logged in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm. Which browser and OS do you use? I can log out..

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I was using Firefox to on Pop!_OS.

I noticed that posting the comment above took a long time, nearly a full minute. So I figured the server was getting overwhelmed. I waited a bit, then I was successful logging out on my next attempt.

I tried to make a new test account after logging out. I wanted to see how that experience has improved with the newer release candidate on lemmy.world. But I'm not sure if the registration was successful. The submission button showed that processing animation for a while before I walked away to grab some lunch. I'm responding here from Firefox for Android.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

@ruud I posted an image to c/weed, and after a few minutes, I changed the URL of the post to an edited version of the image. Now the post can't be seen anymore on my or the communities page, even though the community's stats show that there theoretically should be a post. I messaged the mod, they said they think it's an error or bug, so it shouldn't have been them deleting the post.

Do you have any idea what happened here? Is there some kind of content filtering going on to keep it family friendly? Or is something broken?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've very curious if Lemmy could scale to sizes similar to Reddit. Would that require creating multiple instances? Is there a max active users that an instance could handle? Is there a way to load balance between servers?

I suspect this hasn't been done since Lemmy just recently exploded in popularity.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Jerboa app on Android, the feed/dashboard/frontpage has tiny font size, and when opening a post, the font size is huge. Changing the font size in settings affects both at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Running fine for me on mobile chrome right now. Which I know doesn't really help you but it's a data point at least

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year 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] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't sign in, had to create another account on another instance just to ask?

Hit login and it just spins forever?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you verify the e-mail ? (check spam) Let me know if that doesn't work.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do see 2 posts, in the College community (and your profile)

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