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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] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hi Ruud!

Is it perhaps possible to change the url of the Lemme.world logo in the left top corner? It shows the frontpage, but maybe it is better to show your subscriptions by hot?

https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/Subscribed/sort/Hot/page/1

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Any idea why I can't open https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]? Mander.xyz should be federated. I just get 404: couldnt_find_community

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

I like the new icon!

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

So I'm in the same boat, been trying to figure out the search.. what I've discovered for adding communities, search using the Lemmy world web browser instance, not the app.

Often you will see under the community header [email protected] <this is what you type in the search bar on the web browser for Lemmy.world once you have done that you can return to the app and search again and it should show up allowing you to join.

Sometimes you can long press directly on the link in the community and click 'open in app'

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

When creating an account, it should show a dialogue saying check your email for verification. Right now it doesn't show anything which is confusing for new users who are trying to login for the first time.

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

So I can see that a member has posted something to my new community on another server yesterday, but it still hasn't filtered back to here specifically from beehaw

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

Enhancement request:

I don't know if this is a Lemmy.world thing, or a Lemmy-in-general thing, but I'd love the ability to create "meta communities" (I don't care the nomenclature); i.e., something where I could make a [email protected] but that combined [email protected], [email protected], FOO@[insert other fed server], and BAR@[insert other fed server] and so forth so I could have a bit more granularity/control in viewing communities.

EDIT: adding another example combination to show that the FOO doesn't have to stay the same across the combined communities.

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[–] [email protected] 2 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.

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

When logging in, I'm temporarily in another user's account. Last one was "Sean". I'm not sure if there's some sort of cache I'm hitting or what, after a few seconds or when I interact with something it fixes itself, but it's a bit annoying.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 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] 2 points 1 year ago (6 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (6 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.

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

Was Lemmy.world down just now?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I see a couple other comments about sign up issues and I’m having the same. Don’t see anything in my spam folder, though. Both submit buttons on the sign up/login pages just spin endlessly the last couple days. Someone said they managed to fix it by using "forgot password" on the login page but clicking that button does nothing. name’s same here as on midwest.social.

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