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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)

Could the Upvoted/Downvoted/Hidden tabs be added to profiles? Would really be useful when searching something you've already seen.

[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* (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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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

Thanks, there are a number of them. Iโ€™ll DM you a list. (For future reference, do you have to fix this manually in Postgres?)

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[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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know if it a bug or not, but my Posts are nowhere to be found in my profile.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You probably have deselected the 'Show read posts' option in your settings.

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

Doh, you are right. Thanks! ๐Ÿ™

[โ€“] [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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[โ€“] [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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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

here is just a random list of features/improvements i would like to see

  • save sorting preferences in comment sections. right now it defaults to hot.
  • improve the hot/active algorithms. at the moment they don't seems to actually show popular posts like their reddit hot/popular counterparts. could be a symptom of being much smaller, but i never see any of the lemmy communities i follow that aren't the biggest ones, and on reddit i can see the small communities i follow.
  • better syncing between instances. i also use kbin, and that seems to have issues with cross content at times. i can't see comments sometimes, and votes are completely different on both platforms.
  • more granular "Top X" filters
  • search by date range, and various other improvements to search. (anything is better than reddit search, but the ability to search this platform is probably more important than people realize)
  • more embed integrations for things like gifs and youtube videos. generally, try and keep people on the site.
  • open links in a new tab by default. on mobile
  • a back button on mobile, not a menu button.
  • account/community migration/merging
  • community themes, and the ability to turn them off.

this last one isn't really a request, it's more of an ultimatum.

  • whatever the fuck new.reddit.com is/does/looks like, DON'T DO THAT. make this site look as much like old.reddit.com as possible and never change that.
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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Dear @[email protected] ,

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

[โ€“] [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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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Was Lemmy.world down just now?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm trying to set up a new forum as a fallback for a subreddit I help moderate that's currently been set to private due to the blackouts, but the Create Community button seems to hang indefinitely whenever I try to do so. Wondering - is this normal for new users, or a bug?

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[โ€“] [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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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemmy.world: In settings, you can define the default Sort Type for posts. Next to that, there is a question mark that leads to a 404 iso to the explanation.


By the way. It is both impressive and amazing how much the number of active topics has grown here over the last month. Congrats!

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[โ€“] [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.

[โ€“] [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?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 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).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

This is something which is definitely not a priority. But accounts getting badges or something similar for completing milestones would be pretty amazing. Currently the profiles look really empty

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 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.

[โ€“] [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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