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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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.
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)
New posts appear “live” at the top of the frontpage regardless of what sorting method is chosen. This disrupts the reading process and minimizes any expanded image view. Is there any way to disable this “live feed” behavior?
Also, the “sorting help” button points to a dead link.
Big +1 here. Mastodon provides a button to click to show new posts, maybe Lemmy could do the same
This is such a big issue for me I currently don’t really want to use Lemmy.
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
The upvote/downvote (or whatever you call it here) sometimes freaks out a bit.
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.
An Improvement I would like to see:
When scrolling my front page, I would like to be able to click the thread picture to a) see the ‘body of the post’ prior to entering the thread and b) if it is a picture be able to ‘drag to resize’ prior to entering the thread… I know these would all take a while to do, but it would be what I would like most.
A big issue that I’m constantly having is that, I fully open a post and read it, and then all of a sudden the post has switched to an entirely new one. It has happened a few times now during my time typing this comment. Here’s a screenshot of it.
That’s a websockets issue. Hopefully will be fixed in 0.18 (they’ll remove websockets)
I was about to report the same issue, glad to know it’s being fixed !
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.
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.
You’re welcome
The button “sorting help” links to a page that 404s:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/01-getting-started.html/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
should probably be:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Thanks, submitted bug report https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/1348
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.
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.
Edit 2: Related to my second paragraph, I suggest changing the default sorting to Hot instead of Active. At least currently, Active keeps a handful of the same posts permanently on top, giving the impression of inactivity for newcomers used to Reddit. Hot will provide a more varied front page.
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.
Uploaded images autorotate, and I couldn’t find how to manually rotate it prior to postinf. I’m using web/android if it matters
Seconded!
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.
