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.
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New posts appear “live” at the top of the frontpage regardless of what sorting method is chosen. This disrupts the reading process and minimizes any expanded image view. Is there any way to disable this “live feed” behavior?
Also, the “sorting help” button points to a dead link.
Big +1 here. Mastodon provides a button to click to show new posts, maybe Lemmy could do the same
This is such a big issue for me I currently don’t really want to use Lemmy.
A big issue that I’m constantly having is that, I fully open a post and read it, and then all of a sudden the post has switched to an entirely new one. It has happened a few times now during my time typing this comment; here’s a screenshot of it.
That’s a websockets issue. Hopefully will be fixed in 0.18 (they’ll remove websockets)
I was about to report the same issue, glad to know it’s being fixed !
The hot sort appears to be frozen for the last 24 hrs. The top posts on all or local haven’t changed in nearly a day. There appears to be a bug causing a deadlock in the database (see issue 3076 for more info). The only solution seems to be to restart the instance when that thread crashes.
Yes as a workaround I restart the lemmy container every hour.
Thanks for the tip. That keeps my sort acting much better.
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
Thanks, submitted bug report https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1348
Some communities aren’t updating on lemmy.world
Specifically, I moderate /c/worldbuilding@lemmy.ml and I noticed that lemmy.world’s side is not updating. No new posts from lemmy.ml’s side, and their side shows 300+ subscribers while mine shows ~80
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.
Good idea. Suggestions can be submitted in their Github https://github.com/LemmyNet
It would be very nice if communities could set a default post language that user can override. Most communitieswould want their post in the same language anyway and scrolling trough the list to select a post language every time is pretty annoying especially on mobile
Also my verification email went to spam/junk would be nice to have a disclaimer about that if it isn’t possible to fix atm
In the comment listing, each comment first has an avatar, then the username, then the [—] button to collapse the comment thread. Observation: Because username length varies from comment to comment, the [—] button is in a different horizontal position. Consequence: As a user, it is tedious to collapse several comment threads because I have to search for that [—] button.
Request: put the [—] button as first item, to the left of the avatar and username.
I like this about the reddit UI where you can click anywhere on the vertical bar to collapse them. Collapse should be easier than the tiny button imo
Btw this also works on Jerboa, the Android app for Lemmy. You can basically tap anywhere in the message and it collapses.
Issue: Sometimes, when scrolling or reading, the screen jumps up. Making it very difficult to read comments.
Improvement: Open post by clicking on the text, not just title and comment button, makes it easier on phones.
And collapseing comment chains, which makes it easier to scroll and read posts with a lot of comments, especially if some comment chains are not relevant to you.
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 ?
Yeah I’m having lots of issues upvoting as well, I seem to be able to comment and post fine if I just wait a minute or so but upvoting doesn’t seem to work
Me too, it happened to me a few times already. Also, sometimes it changes the whole post I’m looking at entirely but comments stay the same, wild. (This happens while looking at a post that I’ve clicked on.)
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.
massively increase according to the lemmy devs: https://lemmy.ml/post/1216911
Issue:
Is it just me, or has “Hot” not refreshed with any new posts in over a day? I know there are posts coming in, but my Subscribed, Local, and All feeds have been static when sorting by “Hot”.
edit: I think it’s fixed on my end. I’m finally seeing newer stuff when sorting by Hot
Yeah. For me, lemmy is becoming very boring because of this bug. I only see old posts all day, and I don’t think there are only old posts in Lemmy.
Yeah, hot (and probably active as well) is completely broken at the moment.
(I’m going to put one feature/issue in each comment to make it easier to discuss each topic individually, hope that’s ok)
Issues: As the default sort, “Active” is a self-boosting cycle as well. Active posts show up for everyone, so first-time users participate there, and it stays on active for 4-5 days. This is going to drive users away when they see the same front page after the 2nd or 3rd day. Perhaps “Hot” might be a better default sort?
Same issue, lots of them are over two days old.
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!
@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
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.
@TragicNotCute Yep. I actually liked Reddit’s Best sorting
(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.
This would be useful indeed. Check the Lemmy GitHub if it isn’t already requested, else you can.
Federation not always working; Apparently not everything gets synced all the time. This needs troubleshooting.
I thought I was suffering from this, but then I added English to my profile languages, and suddenly many posts on other instances that I could not see before were now visible.
Oh that’s a good tip…
