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.

  • northernscrub@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    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

  • cameron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    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)

    • mxh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      This seems like a really big problem to me. I tried searching lemmy for it, but have not found anything conclusive.

      I found a post or two claiming that the issue is that the API is implemented using websockets only, so it’s not as simple as just turning it off. I really hope that is not the case, since I currently can’t read anything on the frontpage that takes more than a few seconds!

    • nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11

  • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • Chickens@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Maybe it’s already taken? Or the name is >20 characters? Or not all-lowercase?

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Personally I think when clicking ‘Post’ it takes too long for it to be posted. I will see what I can do about this.

    • ericjmorey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Also, there’s no local saving of the data in the post submition, so if there’s a server or connection error, you lose whatever you typed.

  • 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

  • HiddenTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks! I’ll see which of these I can fix at server level and which are for the devs.

      • HiddenTower@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        1 year ago

        Hey /u/Mac if you know more can you expand? I understand it’s asking me to pick a language, I just don’t understand the warning. If i’m posting in english, it seems I should pick “english”, but the warning makes it sound like i’ll be missing out if I do that. What would I miss out on? What does it mean to “not see most content”? Why even have an option then? It’s just super unclear what happens.

        • Mac@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Dunno m8. From what I’ve read it’s best to leave it undetermined.

        • griffen62@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          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?

          • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Well we’re in the baby phase now, so most maintenance is ad-hoc. But after that it’s a good idea. About redundancy: it’s a single VPS. But when the VPS or datacenter breaks, we have a backup, and it runs in Docker so it’s just restoring the backup, starting the containers and redirect the DNS

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Post 0.18 update on desktop, the domain of external links is no longer visible (unless you hover over the link)

    I miss this, as it goes to contextualising and trust issues - knowing whether a link goes to apnews, dailywire or theonion is a big deal, let alone the risk of malware/etc.

    Could this be re-added at some point?

  • Alpagu@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Which name? Sometimes the community already was created and deleted. I then need to purge it for the name to becoma available again.

  • UWbadgers16@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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?

  • 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

  • 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?

  • 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.