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Lemmy.world improvements and issues

https://lemmy.world/post/15786

Lemmy.world improvements and issues - Lemmy.world

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 - Federation issue: local lemmy.world account’s posts not showing when following from a remote server Mastodon/Calckey/Alloma. - Post / Reply takes 2 to 5 seconds ## Enhancement requests - Can themes be added? > To be checked if this can be done without changing code.

HiddenTower Jun 8, 2023

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

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?)

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.

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.

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.

Favorite Retro Games - Lemmy.world

Thought I would start a thread and get some traction for this community. What are some of your favorite retro games? My favorite is Super Mario Bros 3.

Ruud Jun 8, 2023

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

Dream_state Jun 9, 2023

Point 2 has happened to me, couldn't reply to a mastodon post

HiddenTower Jun 12, 2023

Oh! Glad to know it's not just me :-)

Mac Jun 9, 2023

#4 is the language.

HiddenTower Jun 11, 2023

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 Jun 11, 2023

Dunno m8. From what I've read it's best to leave it undetermined.

𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆 Jun 10, 2023

(low priority) on this page: https://lemmy.world/post/36032 the vote count is all over the place each time I view it while logged in. I promise I'm not such a snowflake that votes really matter to me. I'm more concerned about the way this will impact new user confidence on the platform when their engagement feedback is questionable. Someone that doesn't know any better may assume that the fluctuating numbers they see are faked to improve engagement and retention. Over the hours since I made the linked post, the votes seem to fluctuate between something like 20-25 on some page views, 40-60 on others, some are around 200-220, and others are ranging from 400-420. It seems random and uncorrelated as far as I can tell. Like selecting a reply from someone on my account, and viewing, does not seem to show the count as it was when they replied. I thought maybe it was fluctuating based on Local versus All instances, but that doesn't seem consistent either. Just scrolling down the page and back up to the counter after a few minutes can live update and change the count. I am viewing from a Chromium derivative Vanadium on mobile/Graphene OS (AOSP/live updates and current).
secondly, I tried reposting a short 32 second mp4 clip and get an error, something about json. Is there a way to do video here? I could try setting up an account on your peertube if that works for cross posting, or I could use my workstation to convert the file to a gif if that will work. What is the best way to post something like this? (https://old.reddit.com/r/lifehacks/comments/yxz1jl/upcycled_soapbox_life/)
I've tried to post this message a half dozen times here and have had no luck...until now

Ruud Jun 10, 2023

Hi, so the 1st and 3rd point sound like something the Lemmy devs should look into, could you submit that at https://github.com/LemmyNet ? The video point: I haven't tested video yet. You could post it on Peertube as a workaround while I try to fix it.

silveroranges Jun 11, 2023

I am trying to move some of my posts from my community on reddit to here, and they are very long. I am able to post short posts, but not long ones. It gives me that spinning circle after I hit post, and I have waited 10 minutes and it hasn't posted. Works great for shorter things. Is there a character limit im hitting or maybe a spam filter since everything of mine is new?

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

What's long, the post title, or the content? Any indication on how long the ones are that fail?

silveroranges Jun 11, 2023

The content, ~5k words, 23k characters with spaces. I was able to make a short post but copying/pasting over the long ones seems to not go through. I shortened it until it posted, and the limit is somewhere between 2k words and 1371 words, the 1371 word one being able to be posted.

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Hmm. Let me find out where that is configured..

Zak Jun 11, 2023

I also have this issue. The post is about 36K characters long, which is under Lemmy's supposed 50K limit. So far, I've only tried it on desktop Firefox.

KirbyJoe Jun 13, 2023

Same here. I was using Windows version of Google Chrome when I try to post.

decadentrebel Jun 11, 2023

Any chance we could have thumbnails show up on the index page?

Marko 😆Jun 11, 2023

Anyone else having issues with login on mobile devices? I can't login at all, but I can normally enter on desktop. Tried in Brave and in Chrome, it doesn't work–after pressing button it keeps loading forever.

TeaHands Jun 11, 2023

Running fine for me on mobile chrome right now. Which I know doesn't really help you but it's a data point at least

Marko 😆Jun 11, 2023

Did you assign e-mail address to your account? Are you using it for login or the username?

TeaHands Jun 11, 2023

I did, but logged in with username iirc

Marko 😆Jun 11, 2023

Then something must be wrong with my account.

Floufym Jun 11, 2023

Yes, I have the same. First time using Lemmy. I register on Lemmy.world but when trying to log in, it just do nothing on mobile, Mozilla, iOS

Here I am writing using Mlem application.

Marko 😆Jun 11, 2023

Good, so I'm not the only one. Also, what I find weird. When I go to Lemmy.ml and search for the communities, my community is on the list, but when I opet it it has one post that was deleted, and doesn't have any new posts. It's like the two Lemmy instances aren't synced at all.

Lemmy is riddled with bugs that are making it hard to use.

Floufym Jun 17, 2023

Still not working for me. On iOS with Mozilla but works well with Safari.

Astrealix Jun 11, 2023

Anyone not able to post? It's been loading for ages for me

divinegrilledcheese Jun 11, 2023

When trying to create a new community, after pressing the create button, I get stuck in that screen (that shows something is loading). Am I doing something wrong?

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Did you write the name in only lowercase letters?

divinegrilledcheese Jun 11, 2023

Yes, I have filled Name-Display Name-Sidebar-Languages, just after I press the create button it turns to a loading icon and I get stuck there.

WooChooTrain Jun 11, 2023

Certain communities seem to be inaccessible from Lemmy.world and vice versa. For instance, if I try to access /c/boston in Lemmy.ml via lemmy.world/c/[email protected], I get a "404: couldnt_find_community" error. Similarly, trying to access /c/boston in Lemmy.world from either Kbin.social (via kbin.social/m/[email protected]) or Lemmy.ml (via lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]) both give 404 errors.

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Hmm works for me, I can find it and open it. Maybe lemmy.ml was overloaded?

WooChooTrain Jun 11, 2023

Yeah possibly! I think the second issue I mentioned is still occurring, though. Namely, lemmy.ml/c/[email protected] returns a 404 error (and also for Kbin.social).

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Then I think lemmy.ml hasn't discovered it yet, maybe there's delay on their server?

WooChooTrain Jun 11, 2023

Perhaps! This should be triggered by searching "[email protected]" from lemmy.ml, correct?

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Yes, but as the server is overloaded, it might take some time.

WooChooTrain Jun 11, 2023

Sounds good, I'll check back another time, thanks for looking into it!

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Yes

fouc Jun 11, 2023

I've observed the same thing, newer lemmy.ml communities and pretty much everything from kbin returns 404 when accessed through this instance. It happens with other instances, to a varying degree.

WooChooTrain Jun 11, 2023

Strange! Does that possibly mean there’s an issue with federation on the lemmy.world side?

ericjmorey Jun 11, 2023

I've clicked on he logout button several times and I'm still logged in.

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

Hmm. Which browser and OS do you use? I can log out..

ericjmorey Jun 11, 2023

I was using Firefox to on Pop!_OS.

I noticed that posting the comment above took a long time, nearly a full minute. So I figured the server was getting overwhelmed. I waited a bit, then I was successful logging out on my next attempt.

I tried to make a new test account after logging out. I wanted to see how that experience has improved with the newer release candidate on lemmy.world. But I'm not sure if the registration was successful. The submission button showed that processing animation for a while before I walked away to grab some lunch. I'm responding here from Firefox for Android.

again Jun 14, 2023

I see the same logout behavior. Chrome on Windows 11. When I click the logout button, the page reloads but I'm still logged in until after several (maybe six or so?) attempts. Happened on three occasions, including today.

Incidentally (or not?), when I tried to create a family member's account in the same browser tab I'd logged out from, the circle spun and spun but didn't complete and we didn't receive an email. That was two days ago, and I still can't access the new account with the password. Nothing happens when I enter the email address and click forgot-password, though I can see that the account has a user page with the corresponding cake date and time.

ericjmorey Jun 14, 2023

@[email protected] maybe you can help with the above

@ruud - LemmyWorld

Admin of a lot of fediverse servers, among which the .world ones: - lemmy.world - mastodon.world - calckey.world You can find me on these servers as @ruud I receive a lot of messages, direct and mentions. I can’t reply to them all. If you have an issue, please e-mail at [email protected]

again Jun 14, 2023

Thanks, @[email protected] if you triggered the email, because we just got it and the rest went smoothly. If you didn't, all the same, I appreciate all your mod work.

Thanks, @[email protected] for the assist.

again Jun 14, 2023

Thanks @[email protected] if you triggered the email, because we received it and the rest went smoothly. If you didn't, I appreciate your mod work all the same.

Thanks @[email protected] for the assist.

BigFig Jun 11, 2023

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

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

That sounds like a good enhancement request for https://github.com/LemmyNet

Drew Got No Clue Jun 11, 2023

It's been suggested already on GitHub, but I don't think anyone is working on it (see).

Post scheduling? · Issue #234 · LemmyNet/lemmy

Not a priority rn, but as lemmy grows it might be cool to have a post scheduler built in. Want to back this issue? Post a bounty on it! We accept bounties via Bountysource.

GitHub

Ruud Jun 11, 2023

I think the team is small and the current focus is performance improvements. At least, I hope it is.

Baron Von J Jun 12, 2023

How long should it take for a community to fully federate? There is [email protected] which is missing posts from the last 3 days vs https://lemmy.ml/c/usmlr.

Baron Von J Jun 12, 2023

Is there a way to link to a post on a federated instance like we can link to a community? For example I can go to https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected] and as far as I know that will kick of fetching the community. But maybe there's a way to do that for individual posts too?

Natejka7273 Jun 12, 2023

Would love to see 2-factor authentication (app-based) implemented at some point. Not a pressing issue right now, but once everything stabilizes I think it would be a valuable security feature long-term.

wit Jun 13, 2023

Apparently, it is already merged in main. It should be available in the next release?: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2363

Alpagu Jun 12, 2023

Hi. I'm trying to build community. I write all the letters in lowercase. I don't use symbols. I can't create it, though.

Ruud Jun 12, 2023

Which name? Sometimes the community already was created and deleted. I then need to purge it for the name to becoma available again.

Alpagu Jun 12, 2023

turkey

Ruud Jun 12, 2023

Yes, it was already created and deleted. I've purged it, now you can create a new one

Alpagu Jun 12, 2023

Thank you. I will have a suggestion. Can a simulation be done for server needs and expenses? I don't want this server to shut down and go away. If there is a system that shows how much the server costs are and how many of them are covered, we can make some support payment at the end of each month. In this way, the server is not shut down after a while.

Ruud Jun 12, 2023

I will soon create a new blog post, I mean to keep it monthly, with all the finances. https://blog.mastodon.world

Audalin Jun 12, 2023

Occasionally the setting to use Subscribed as the default tab is reset (mobile browser version). Perhaps it happens during server restarts?

In any tab, new posts are inserted in real time regardless of the sorting method chosen.

When a post is open, its title and post text are sometimes replaced with those of another post. Comments remain, and reloading fixes that.