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.

  • Phil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 years 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.

  • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years 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.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    It surprised me that the communities list can’t be sorted by clicking on column headers; especially because the mouse cursor becomes a pointing-finger when hovering over them.

  • Limeey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years 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

  • chezjoeong@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    On Android Client Jerboa v0.0.37 & 36 “Server version (0.1.4 is underthe minimum supported version (0.18). Please inform your administrator and login to another instance, or sign out and use the default instance.”

    On other android clients: Liftoff & Lemur: lemmy.world cannot be found as an instance.

  • 0235@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    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 :)

  • cameron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 years 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)

    • nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 years ago

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

    • mxh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 years 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!

  • BigFig@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years 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

  • azuth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years 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.

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
    2·
    3 years 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.

  • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years 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.

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      I’ve noticed a bug with that and created an issue for the devs, they will fix it.

  • ericjmorey@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    @ruud@lemmy.world There are a lot of federation issues I’ve seen between lemmy.world and other instances.

    I can’t seem to subscribe to any communities from fanaticus.social or midwest.social. I made an account on fanaticus.social and can’t subscribe the other way either.

    There was a delay of days for https://midwest.social/post/689124 and https://lemmy.world/post/174998 to start syncing and they are still out of sync. (These have synchronized since my post here)

  • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years ago

    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.

  • northernscrub@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    3 years 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