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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.

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

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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[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could the Upvoted/Downvoted/Hidden tabs be added to profiles? Would really be useful when searching something you've already seen.

[–] rr7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This!! Especially Upvoted

[–] wit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

This sort of thing should be requested on Lemmy's repository. Not sure if this is lemmy or lemmy-ui.

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

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)

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Would deleting the browser cache help in this case?

[–] Solvena@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Something seems to have broken specifically when using Firefox. Trying to open https://lemmy.world results in "404 - deleted" in my case. I can open lemmy.world just fine on Safari (iOS) and Edge (Win11).

[–] richie510@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I am just getting an infinite spinner when trying to post to !nuggets@lemmy.world Just trying to post something here to see if I can do anything...

edit: just saw the 2000 character limit. will adjust my post...

edit2: i was way under 2000 characters. Finally after trying everything else, I just didnt select the language "english" and it went through (slowly) without issue.

[–] EsotericEmbryo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Someone has probably mentioned it already but Jerboa is giving me this error when trying to use lemmy.world

[–] Ginjutsu@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Try out Liftoff in the meantime.

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[–] meekah@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

@ruud I posted an image to c/weed, and after a few minutes, I changed the URL of the post to an edited version of the image. Now the post can't be seen anymore on my or the communities page, even though the community's stats show that there theoretically should be a post. I messaged the mod, they said they think it's an error or bug, so it shouldn't have been them deleting the post.

Do you have any idea what happened here? Is there some kind of content filtering going on to keep it family friendly? Or is something broken?

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[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Occasionally the setting to use Subscribed as the default tab is reset (mobile browser version). Perhaps it happens during server restarts?

In any tab, new posts are inserted in real time regardless of the sorting method chosen.

When a post is open, its title and post text are sometimes replaced with those of another post. Comments remain, and reloading fixes that.

[–] Quercus001@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I was setting up my account earlier today and I tried to set up 2 factor authentication but experienced some errors. I clicked the box and reloaded my settings but I wasn't able to enter an email or anything into the authentication method.

On the main page, it seems like there's a stream of stuff always loading. How do I pause it?

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

Can we have more sort options? Like, "Top - Hour" ?

I used to browse reddits all/rising. I find engaging a post early on is the best way to participate in an active discussion. New/Top Today just aren't returning the right posts.

(Couldn't find this suggestion anywhere else in this thread)

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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.

[–] Sergigig@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Hoffen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure if this has been mentioned. But as I just joined I was looking through communities to join and noticed there were several with the same name but just lower case instead or with a space between words.

Should community names be case sensitive and no spaces to make sure there are fewer duplicates/lookalike communities?

[–] Marko@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 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

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

Yes, I have the same. First time using Lemmy. I register on Lemmy.world but when trying to log in, it just do nothing on mobile, Mozilla, iOS

Here I am writing using Mlem application.

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

I managed to fix the problem; I kept entering wrong password. πŸ€¦β€β™‚οΈ Also, what I find weird–when I go to Lemmy.ml and search for the communities, my community is on the list, but when I opet it, it has one post that was deleted, and doesn't have any new posts. It's like the two Lemmy instances aren't synced at all.

Lemmy is riddled with bugs that are making it hard to use.

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