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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.

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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[–] 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.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 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.

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[–] Ryumast3r@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be more of a question than a "known issue" or "request" but, do you want individual users to be able to see the modlog for the entire Lemmy.world instance? For instance I can see not only who has been added/removed as a moderator, but what posts/comments have been removed/restored.

But also, thank you for running this, and also for having posts like this up which greatly help people like me know you're working on stuff.

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

Any idea why I can't open https://lemmy.world/c/gardening@mander.xyz? Mander.xyz should be federated. I just get 404: couldnt_find_community

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Could you try it again now? I did a search for the community on here and afterward was able to open it via your link, but I want to confirm it's not just me.

Edit:
If it works for you now, I think it was related to the community not being searched/seen by the instance just yet despite us being linked to mander.xyz.

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

It works for me now, thank you. I guess there's just a delay in pushing/pulling things from different instances?

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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.

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[–] 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

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

The rapid scrolling when viewing new or hot makes the site almost unusable. The issue for this is closed and the author says it has landed in main and will be available in 0.18. Do we have plans to upgrade? RC1 was released today. Thanks!

[–] jcb2016_@mastodon.social 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@TragicNotCute @ruud Try the android app jeroba it should control the stream. I don't know what they have for iOS Hope they fix it soon

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

Hehe, that’s my problem. I’m on iOS and the best alternative doesn’t allow sorting by Hot. Unfortunately for me that’s how I like to use the platform generally.

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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 (1 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).

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

Then I think lemmy.ml hasn't discovered it yet, maybe there's delay on their server?

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

Perhaps! This should be triggered by searching "!boston@lemmy.world" from lemmy.ml, correct?

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[–] silveroranges@lemmy.world 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?

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 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?

[–] silveroranges@lemmy.world 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.

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[–] md5crypto@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

#1 - Ctrl+Enter or Cmd+Enter to post comments or threads. #2 - Create the equivalent of Reddit's Front Page.

[–] dappererror@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't sign in, had to create another account on another instance just to ask?

Hit login and it just spins forever?

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

Did you verify the e-mail ? (check spam) Let me know if that doesn't work.

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[–] dystop@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

(I'm going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that's ok)

Enhancement requests: Again, might be better addressed lemmy-wide, but as a mod, I think there is no way to "sticky" or "pin" a reply to an existing thread, so that it stays at the top. This would be useful for "official" replies in the voice of a moderator, and I imagine it will be useful in future if mods ever need to lock posts and have to explain why.

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[–] Interesting_Test_814@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I noticed upvotes are behaving weirdly sometimes, like the upvote count of a post will shuffle between random numbers like 55 then 735 then 345 then 56 then 902 then 736 then 4 then 57 then 346 then 251 then 58. (Yeah, I noticed some of these are counsecutive which makes me think we're somehow upvoting on different counts and it shows the most recently upvoted.) Also sometimes when I upvote a comment my upvote disappears and sometimes it reappears later... why ?

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[–] godless@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Issue:

So, I've created !childfree as a local community, seemingly normal. Only, it doesn't seem to be accessible to anyone locally.

Meaning, https://lemmy.world/c/childfree gives me a 404. Instead, I have to open it as https://lemmy.world/c/childfree@lemmy.world - initially I thought maybe I had made an error creating the community and added the instance, but trying to replicate it shows that @ is not a permitted character, so the problem must have come from elsewhere.

From other instances now I can access it just fine: https://latte.isnot.coffee/c/childfree@lemmy.world or https://feddit.de/c/childfree@lemmy.world (where the @instance is the default behaviour). Locally however, that should not have happened.

Even if I enter the community locally, and click on the !childfree just below the name of the community, it gives me a local 404 (see below).

Any idea what's going on here, and how to resolve the problem? Since we are redirecting users from our sub here, it's creating quite some headaches... And apparently users trying to subscribe from other instances also don't see any posts for up to 48h (tried that myself).

Edit: Apparently I cannot access the community via feddit.de. The other one works fine though - I do have accounts on either instance.

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

If I'm in a community (particularly lemmy.world) and I'm inside of a post, there's no easy way to get back to the community. the top level link brings me to the instance homepage, instead of the community. So far the only way I see to do it is to click the tiny link inside of the post that brings me to the community the post was from. Additionally, I don't see an easy way to "know" what community I'm in when I'm inside of the post other than the same thing.

Seems like communities should still show the banner even when in the post, even if it's a comrpessed banner compared to the post list banner.

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