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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.

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

Would love the ability to set a time for a post to publish. I've been posting a lot of news articles to /c/texas and I don't want users to feel like its spamming. If I could set a publish time that would be awesome

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

That sounds like a good enhancement request for https://github.com/LemmyNet

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

I've noticed that despite setting my default view to "All" in the user settings, my default view on the home page appears to be local.

It's not the worst thing ever, since hitting All is not a problem, just interesting it doesn't seem to work, unless I'm missing something!

Edit: It appears to have fixed itself, so maybe there was some time for the setting to kick in, although the local tab shows highlighted.

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months 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 10 months 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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi. I'm trying to build community. I write all the letters in lowercase. I don't use symbols. I can't create it, though.

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

Which name? Sometimes the community already was created and deleted. I then need to purge it for the name to becoma available again.

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

Yes, it was already created and deleted. I've purged it, now you can create a new one

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

My homepage keeps dynamically adding posts so when I scroll, it loses my place on the page. Is there a setting that I'm missing here?

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

Personally I think when clicking 'Post' it takes too long for it to be posted. I will see what I can do about this.

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

Also, there's no local saving of the data in the post submition, so if there's a server or connection error, you lose whatever you typed.

[–] [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

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

Some issues I've seen, mostly related to interactions with mastodon. I generally use Mastodon more so I've been playing with it.

  1. I can follow a lemmy community on my mastodon account but all the posters do not show their avatar. (actually i just checked again and my avatar shows up, but others don't, so perhaps there is a long delay?)

  2. I replied to a lemmy post on mastodon, and it showed up in lemmy, but when I'm logged in to lemmy and I try to post a reply to that it never publishes, the "post" button becomes the spinner and never makes the reply. This post for reference. This is the only one that feels like a bug.

  3. when someone on another lemmy instance makes a post on our community, a mastodon toot goes out, but it links to their post on their community. It makes it a little odd to follow a link and it takes me to another instance than the one hosting the community. Maybe this isn't a bug, just kinda annoying, kinda fediverse in general it's tough to bounce between instances. Example. Ok making that link, it's clear that the "post" originated from the instance. I guess this is just how it works. Message Board systems are a bit more tricky than twitter-style systems.

  4. When I make a post, it's got a warning Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content. and I have no idea what this is talking about.

  5. I wish the community page would let me sort the rows by Subscribers.

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

Thanks! I'll see which of these I can fix at server level and which are for the devs.

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

Hey /u/Mac if you know more can you expand? I understand it's asking me to pick a language, I just don't understand the warning. If i'm posting in english, it seems I should pick "english", but the warning makes it sound like i'll be missing out if I do that. What would I miss out on? What does it mean to "not see most content"? Why even have an option then? It's just super unclear what happens.

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

Dunno m8. From what I've read it's best to leave it undetermined.

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

Was Lemmy.world down just now?

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

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

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

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

[–] [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?

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

Well we're in the baby phase now, so most maintenance is ad-hoc. But after that it's a good idea. About redundancy: it's a single VPS. But when the VPS or datacenter breaks, we have a backup, and it runs in Docker so it's just restoring the backup, starting the containers and redirect the DNS

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

On the homepage lemmy.world, new posts keep appearing at the top even when not sorting by new. This causes annoying layout shift, especially when browsing all communities, not just local ones. (I use Firefox / Win 10)

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

This seems like a really big problem to me. I tried searching lemmy for it, but have not found anything conclusive.

I found a post or two claiming that the issue is that the API is implemented using websockets only, so it’s not as simple as just turning it off. I really hope that is not the case, since I currently can’t read anything on the frontpage that takes more than a few seconds!

[–] [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.

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

I downloaded the app after making an account online and I keep getting "incorrect login", what am I missing?

[–] [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

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

Did you assign e-mail address to your account? Are you using it for login or the username?

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

I am trying to move some of my posts from my community on reddit to here, and they are very long. I am able to post short posts, but not long ones. It gives me that spinning circle after I hit post, and I have waited 10 minutes and it hasn't posted. Works great for shorter things. Is there a character limit im hitting or maybe a spam filter since everything of mine is new?

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

What's long, the post title, or the content? Any indication on how long the ones are that fail?

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

The content, ~5k words, 23k characters with spaces. I was able to make a short post but copying/pasting over the long ones seems to not go through. I shortened it until it posted, and the limit is somewhere between 2k words and 1371 words, the 1371 word one being able to be posted.

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

Hmm. Let me find out where that is configured..

[–] [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?

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

Yes, but as the server is overloaded, it might take some time.

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

I think lemmy.world need to up the "Federation worker count" under the server settings. The more data that needs to be federated, the higher this number should be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

massively increase according to the lemmy devs: https://lemmy.ml/post/1216911

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