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.

  • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Phil@lemmy.world
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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

    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 :)

  • 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.

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    1 year 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.

  • 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)

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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

    • 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!

  • Anaralah_Belore223@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Encountered this server error:

    FetchError: request to http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/post?auth=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJzdWIiOjE2MjEsImlzcyI6ImxlbW15LndvcmxkIiwiaWF0IjoxNjg4MjM2ODQzfQ.kI_dX1BrFqDgk2FYpGgQ0XZV5RavGoPxlSrQdFAcMIM&id=15786 failed, reason: socket hang up

    Encountered this error page.

  • azuth@lemmy.world
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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.

  • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPM
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    1 year ago

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

  • 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?

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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

  • HiddenTower@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Some issues I’ve seen, mostly related to interactions with mastodon. I generally use Mastodon more so I’ve been playing with it.

    1. 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?)

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. I wish the community page would let me sort the rows by Subscribers.

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Thanks! I’ll see which of these I can fix at server level and which are for the devs.

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        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.

        • Mac@lemmy.world
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          Dunno m8. From what I’ve read it’s best to leave it undetermined.