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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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[–] chezjoeong@lemmy.world 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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[–] Quercus001@lemmy.world 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.

Encountered this server error:

FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post?auth=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOjE2MjEsImlzcyI6ImxlbW15LndvcmxkIiwiaWF0IjoxNjg4MjM2ODQzfQ.kI_dX1BrFqDgk2FYpGgQ0XZV5RavGoPxlSrQdFAcMIM&id=15786 failed, reason: socket hang up

Encountered this error page.

[–] Chickens@lemmy.world 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.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Chickens@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] northernscrub@lemmy.world 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

[–] j4k3@lemmy.world 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

[–] DRx@lemmy.world 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?

[–] labuzan@lemmy.world 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)

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Would deleting the browser cache help in this case?

[–] Inept@lemmy.world 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@lemmy.world 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.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

One thing that would be nice to have would be body-text expandoes. That is, instead of the text-bubble icon just linking to comments, have it expand the post text inline.

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 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.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 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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[–] WooChooTrain@lemmy.world 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/boston@lemmy.ml, 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/boston@lemmy.world) or Lemmy.ml (via lemmy.ml/c/boston@lemmy.world) both give 404 errors.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] WooChooTrain@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Aim413@lemmy.world 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.

[–] newbeni@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Marko@lemmy.world 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

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 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

[–] Marko@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] meekah@lemmy.world 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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[–] KitchenNo2246@lemmy.world 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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[–] zabil@lemmy.world 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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[–] haddie7979@lemmy.world 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.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] ConTheLibrarian@lemmy.world 0 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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Dear @ruud@lemmy.world ,

From my personal opinion, i would like to add 2 QoL improvements.

  • The ability to go back to the community pages, with clicking on the empty area of a thread ( maybe like what Reddit implements ). The reason is that we can quickly navigate to another post
  • A Scroll to Top / Back to Top Button

But this is just a suggestion based on my personal experience using Lemmy

Thank you :D

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