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
- Posting big posts of over 2000 characters fails, the Post button will stay spinning
- Top posts page gets a stream of new posts ? Websockets issue
- You’re suddenly in another post than you were before > Websockets issue
Enhancement requests
- Can themes be added? > To be checked if this can be done without changing code.
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.
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.
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.
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Federation issue: local posts not showing when following an account from Mastodon/Calckey/Alloma. To be verified if this is lemmy.world specific
This is a limitation of Lemmy and the devs don’t seem interested in adding that feature.
Maybe not worded right, what I mean is that on Mastodon, I don’t see my Lemmy posts on the lemmy.world server. I do see my remote posts. (It’s not about seeing Mastodon posts here in lemmy)
Ah! Hopefully it’s a simple thing to correct.
Some issues I’ve seen, mostly related to interactions with mastodon. I generally use Mastodon more so I’ve been playing with it.
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I can follow a lemmy community on my mastodon account but all the posters do not show their avatar. (actually i just checked again and my avatar shows up, but others don’t, so perhaps there is a long delay?)
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I replied to a lemmy post on mastodon, and it showed up in lemmy, but when I’m logged in to lemmy and I try to post a reply to that it never publishes, the “post” button becomes the spinner and never makes the reply. This post for reference. This is the only one that feels like a bug.
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when someone on another lemmy instance makes a post on our community, a mastodon toot goes out, but it links to their post on their community. It makes it a little odd to follow a link and it takes me to another instance than the one hosting the community. Maybe this isn’t a bug, just kinda annoying, kinda fediverse in general it’s tough to bounce between instances. Example. Ok making that link, it’s clear that the “post” originated from the instance. I guess this is just how it works. Message Board systems are a bit more tricky than twitter-style systems.
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When I make a post, it’s got a warning
Warning: If you deselect Undetermined, you will not see most content.
and I have no idea what this is talking about. -
I wish the community page would let me sort the rows by Subscribers.
Thanks! I’ll see which of these I can fix at server level and which are for the devs.
Point 2 has happened to me, couldn’t reply to a mastodon post
Oh! Glad to know it’s not just me :-)
#4 is the language.
Hey /u/Mac if you know more can you expand? I understand it’s asking me to pick a language, I just don’t understand the warning. If i’m posting in english, it seems I should pick “english”, but the warning makes it sound like i’ll be missing out if I do that. What would I miss out on? What does it mean to “not see most content”? Why even have an option then? It’s just super unclear what happens.
Dunno m8. From what I’ve read it’s best to leave it undetermined.
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Personally I think when clicking ‘Post’ it takes too long for it to be posted. I will see what I can do about this.
I’ve had multiple times where posting has just timed out
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
Yeah. I’m making a list of issues/features I’d like to see so I can submit them as GitHub issues.
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.
I’ve noticed a bug with that and created an issue for the devs, they will fix it.
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
How long should it take for a community to fully federate? There is !usmlr@lemmy.ml which is missing posts from the last 3 days vs https://lemmy.ml/c/usmlr.
Getting lots of ‘timeout’ today.
Doing what? Just viewing local posts, viewing remote posts, searching, posting? Thanks for reporting!
I think it was due to remote server issues. I haven’t had any more timeouts for the last couple hours.
Sorry for late reply.
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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!
First off, thank you for starting this instance. This may already be solved as I am a humble ex-redditor and only recently dabbled into the fedaverse since the twitter exodus.
But when I try and connect a subscribed community to my mastodon feed, I would like to see the post. Currently, the post and every comment from that post is aggregated into my mastodon feed.
Is there a way to just see the post headline?
Edit: spelling
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
Same for me with https://lemmy.world/c/finanzenat@feddit.de - it works fine on beehaw, sh.itjust.works, etc.
Up- and downvoting appears to be borked on this instance specifically. If I hit the buttons, they light up, my upvote is counted - and a split second later it disappears and the button greys out again.
If I reload the page sometimes the vote got counted in the background, sometimes it didn’t.
This appears to affect other parts of the UI as well. Most of the time I expand an image, it expands for a split second, then the UI resets and the image is small again.
Hmm, there are a lot of issues with Websockets, which Lemmy uses. I’m waiting for 0.18 to come out which replaces Websockets, so a lot of these issues should be gone…