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Ruud Jun 7, 2023

Lemmy.world improvements and issues

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.

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Damon Jun 13, 2023

Some communities seem to get fetched only partly.

Example: I am subscribed to lemmy.world/c/[email protected] - and because there's at least one subscriber the content is getting fetched, right? Except if I look at the community from lemmy.world I see only 4 posts, while on its home instance (feddit.nl/c/nieuws) there are 10 posts.

This happens with multiple communities on feddit.nl, and some communities like /c/[email protected] just return "404 community not found". I'm not subscribed to that one, but even if there were no subscribers it would still show some posts, right?

Am I doing something wrong? Is feddit.nl difficult to fetch from maybe? Or is lemmy.world overwhelmed?

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Limeey Jun 13, 2023

This must be part of the algorithm that determines "which" posts to show, I imagine the other 6 from that community would eventually show if you scroll down enough, but I have no proof of that ;)

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Damon Jun 14, 2023

I found the cause and fortunately it was my own fault! This probably doesn't interest you much but I wanted to type it out so others could find my post and figure out their problems.

Because of what you said I tried to visit feddit.nl from other instances where I don't have an account, like beehaw.org/c/[email protected] and lemmy.ml/c/[email protected]. I found that all posts were showing up fine there. Finally, I logged out on lemmy.world and suddenly the posts showed up. Logged back in and half the posts disappeared again.

Turns out all the posts that weren't showing up were (correctly) set to 'Nederlands', and I was only seeing post set to English or not set to any languages. I'm bilingual and when I made my profile I only enabled English. There's no warning that some posts are hidden, I'll put that as feedback when I get around to it.

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Limeey

Nice! I think there's a warning when you make a post that if you change your language then you'll start hiding everything that isn't set to "Undefined" which is a weird choice... I need to look at the lemmy code and see if I can contribute because I def want to fix the shit that's bugging me lol

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Damon Jun 14, 2023

Yes! I noticed that too.

I think the warning when making a post is a leftover from the same dropdown language selection you get on your profile. If you deselect 'undefined' as a language on your profile, you probably miss out on like 90% of all posts.

The warning doesn't really apply to your post, if anything you're probably better off leaving the post 'undefined'...