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.

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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

  • TheDarkBanana87@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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

  • DRx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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?

  • cameron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    On the homepage lemmy.world, new posts keep appearing at the top even when not sorting by new. This causes annoying layout shift, especially when browsing all communities, not just local ones. (I use Firefox / Win 10)

  • kairos@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    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.

  • Nerdlinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • labuzan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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)

  • northernscrub@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    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

  • Inept@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.worldOPM
      1·
      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.

  • silveroranges@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.worldOPMEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      What’s long, the post title, or the content? Any indication on how long the ones are that fail?

      • silveroranges@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • godless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    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.