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.
- “404: 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.
On opening a new tab or window with a lemmy instance, I frequently find that I am not intially logged in. I am logged in, and refreshing the page a few times affirms this. It does not necessarily require a cacheless refresh (ctrl+f5). It also occurs regardless of what lemmy instance I’m browsing.
This started immediately after the hackening event of the other day. I’ll play with what’s in site storage in firefox later on and see what happens.
Edit: Ok something very odd just happened. I did the refresh thing and it briefly showed me logged in as @andybug@lemmy.world, for reasons unknown. It didn’t stay logged in as (s)he, but very briefly flashed it as such.
Edit2: I deleted cache, webtoken, and other detritus in firefox, and refreshed the page to login again. I logged in, and the site served me the logged-out homepage until I refreshed again. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Edit3: I was logged out completely this morning. No explanation as to why as yet, I’ll test tomorrow and see what browser storage looks like
😅
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
That sounds like a good enhancement request for https://github.com/LemmyNet
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?
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.
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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.”
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What are the best practices for uploading an image on a post here, what about technical posts that need a gallery, gifs, mp4, etc.?
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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
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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?
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.
Which name? Sometimes the community already was created and deleted. I then need to purge it for the name to becoma available again.
turkey
Yes, it was already created and deleted. I’ve purged it, now you can create a new one
deleted by creator
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.
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.
I scanned through the comments here and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet, but I would love, love, love to have an option added to settings to open links in a new tab (or possibly windows if some people would prefer that). The current behavior is to open in the current tab, which I am so unaccustomed to I keep closing the tab when I’m done with it rather than hitting the back arrow.
It’s quite jarring to not open in a new tab these days, especially for external links.
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
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.
Maybe it’s already taken? Or the name is >20 characters? Or not all-lowercase?
That was it. I had a capital letter in there. Where did you find those rules?
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.
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)
Would deleting the browser cache help in this case?
The button “sorting help” links to a page that 404s:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/01-getting-started.html/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
should probably be:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html