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.

    • Elle@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Could you try it again now? I did a search for the community on here and afterward was able to open it via your link, but I want to confirm it’s not just me.

      Edit:
      If it works for you now, I think it was related to the community not being searched/seen by the instance just yet despite us being linked to mander.xyz.

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        1 year ago

        It works for me now, thank you. I guess there’s just a delay in pushing/pulling things from different instances?

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          1 year ago

          In a way, yeah. From your experience I’m getting a better sense that if a community on another instance hasn’t been searched on your instance, it won’t have fetched it yet.

          What I did was I went to the top navbar and searched [email protected] to get lemmy.world to fetch it. Took a few seconds but it did! I think if it had been on an instance lemmy.world’s not linked to yet though, you’d want to copy the URL of the instance including community, e.g. https://lemmy.world/c/lemmyworld

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            1 year ago

            Nice, good info to know. I’ve been using this browser extension to speed up subscribing to communities across different instances, so I end up just loading the URL directly rather than searching for it on lemmy.world. I’ll make sure to try searching next time if I run into the same problem.