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.
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.
Seconded.
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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)
I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11
See this: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3008
It will be fixed in the next release of lemmy, 0.18.
do you know when the next release is? the feed shifting around is getting annoying on desktop.
No idea, sorry.
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!
The upvote/downvote (or whatever you call it here) sometimes freaks out a bit.
I’m trying to upvote this but it doesn’t seem to stick…
Same here. Upvotes never seem to work for me on either the app or web.
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
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.
A couple times I’ve clicked a post and a completely different post opened. The latest one was a cat pic I was going to show my daughter and porn opened instead. I’m not subscribed to any porn communities and there weren’t any porn posts in the list on my homepage. This is a real problem. I went back and clicked the link and it worked as expected.
Also, as I was typing this comment, the main post I was replying to changed, but the comments stayed the same. Weird.
I hope all the weirdness is over when they remove websockets and replace it with http. That will be in 0.18 I’m sorry for the unfortunate situation…
Thanks. Not a huge deal for me, just a little uncomfortableness, but I assume it could be a big problem for someone browsing at work.
Thanks for mentioned that. I thought I was mis-clicking, but I think I’m experiencing the same thing you are.
New posts appear at the top of the frontpage regardless of what sorting method is chosen. This disrupts the reading process and minimizes any image the user might have expanded to look at. Is there any way to disable this “live feed” behavior?
Also, the “sorting help” button points to a dead link.
This is such a big issue for me I currently don’t really want to use Lemmy.
Big +1 here. Mastodon provides a button to click to show new posts, maybe Lemmy could do the same
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
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.
I have my viewing type set to “All” on my settings but when I go to the index page (lemmy.world), it’s set to Local.
Not sure if it’s an issue or just a symptom of lack of large communities yet but I also tend to see the same posts on the top every time (“If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk”, “All the sad” and “important rulepost”).
Edit: Also there’s an issue when posting. I click “Post” and it gets stuck in the spinning icon despite my profile indicating my comment has been posted successfully.
I have the same issue regarding All in profile, but defaulting to Local in feed.
There’s a bug right now that causes the hot sort to stop updating. A partial fix will be coming out with the next update. The “hot score” decay is actually very aggressive on Lemmy, so normally posts should fall down the ranking very quickly.
I’m noticing a weird UI issue that makes it sometimes look like a new comment is attached to the wrong post.
For instance, just now I posted a comment on this thread, then went away from my computer and came back a couple minutes later. My browser was now displaying content from this different post but with my new comment attached to it.
Refreshing makes it evident that the comment is actually on the right post, though.
This is all using the default UI on lemmy.world, from a current Chrome browser.
Anyone else seen this sort of thing?
I’m seeing the same thing.
Rarely the web version is laggy and things I’m not intending to click are clicked. Just now, a “Report Created” notification appeared after posting a comment - I’m sorry if something was actually reported, and I have no idea what that even was.
Thats a common bug. Happened to me about three times so far.
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.
Personally I think when clicking ‘Post’ it takes too long for it to be posted. I will see what I can do about this.
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.
That’s something for the devs, maybe raise that at https://github.com/LemmyNet
Might be more of a question than a “known issue” or “request” but, do you want individual users to be able to see the modlog for the entire Lemmy.world instance? For instance I can see not only who has been added/removed as a moderator, but what posts/comments have been removed/restored.
But also, thank you for running this, and also for having posts like this up which greatly help people like me know you’re working on stuff.
That’s a choice the devs made, they want to be open about the moderation so it’s visible to all.
This is also a feature. Transparency is important!