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.

  • 0235@lemmy.world
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    I am very new to Lemmy.world. I have noticed though there is no icon displayed on firefox for the bookmark (but there is for Chrome / DuckDuckGo browser).

    Edit 2023-07-02 - For me this appears to have been fixed :)

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    1 year ago

    Can I just quickly mention that I for one really appreciate the work done by @ruul to keep this instance working as well as it does , thank you.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 year ago

    Test comment; doing some federation testing with admins of other servers.

  • al52025@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So I’ve made 3 posts now and chose pictures to upload. Everytime it takes my photo and turns it sideways on the post. I’ve noticed that if I go to my gallery and edit the photo I’ll rotate it and save it as a copy. I’ll then rotate it back so it’s the correct oriention and save it as a copy again. I’ll then make a post using that copy of the new photo that I rotated twice and the photo will upload in the correct orientation. I think this is a Lemmy issue overall because it happened over 2 instances.

  • BigFig@lemmy.world
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    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

  • TheBananaKing@lemmy.world
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    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?

  • cameron_@lemmy.world
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    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.world
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      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.world
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      1 year ago

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

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    1 year ago

    This post is on a beehaw community. Started by a lemmy.world user. As I understand it is on our local copy of the community that got pulled before the de-federation and only our users should be able to post on it.

    Already that would be bad in my opinion since the copy is unmoderated and isolated. However it appears that some users replying are actually from other instances (not beehaw of course). This can only create confusion and further ‘issues’ with beehaw.

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    1 year ago

    v18 released today, when can we expect the update to be rolled out here?

    EDIT: Not a demand, just a genuine question, sorry if that came off abrasive

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    1 year ago

    Former reddit user making the switch the best I can.

    • Found this guide and made an account on Lemmy.world
    • went on my merry way and found several communities here and there
    • tried to install the mobile client Jerboa and got blocked because the server is older than the app version — and for some reason the former versions crash on my phone

    ➡ am I right to assume that the end user risks losing its app mobile access everytime there’s a update from the app and / or the server?

    • in the end I ended up downloading Thunder which allowed me to login to lemmy.world without version issues
    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Well, 2 strange things:

      • New jerboa version requires server version 0.18, which isn’t released yet
      • Jerboa dev is same as Lemmy dev so he probably should align releases better ;-)
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    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

  • UWbadgers16@lemmy.world
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    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?

  • Alpagu@lemmy.world
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    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.worldOPM
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      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.