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.

  • Nerdlinger@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • functor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • sake@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      This is such a big issue for me I currently don’t really want to use Lemmy.

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • andobando@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      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

      • Dougas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Btw this also works on Jerboa, the Android app for Lemmy. You can basically tap anywhere in the message and it collapses.

  • notabotactually@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • Richie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • DudePluto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    Some communities aren’t updating on lemmy.world

    Specifically, I moderate /c/[email protected] 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

  • sorenant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • aephk@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      I have the same issue regarding All in profile, but defaulting to Local in feed.

    • notabotactually@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • Phil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    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.

  • cameron_@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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)

    • nova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11

    • mxh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years 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!

  • spyd3r@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    When browsing in a fullscreen window the available themes only use about 25% of the horizontal screen space for content, and each post uses up a large amount of vertical space, with most of it being wasted space. Something more compact like old.reddit would be nice.

  • 0235@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    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 :)

  • Interesting_Test_814@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I noticed upvotes are behaving weirdly sometimes, like the upvote count of a post will shuffle between random numbers like 55 then 735 then 345 then 56 then 902 then 736 then 4 then 57 then 346 then 251 then 58. (Yeah, I noticed some of these are counsecutive which makes me think we’re somehow upvoting on different counts and it shows the most recently upvoted.) Also sometimes when I upvote a comment my upvote disappears and sometimes it reappears later… why ?

    • Infernal_pizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Yeah I’m having lots of issues upvoting as well, I seem to be able to comment and post fine if I just wait a minute or so but upvoting doesn’t seem to work

    • Axurite@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Me too, it happened to me a few times already. Also, sometimes it changes the whole post I’m looking at entirely but comments stay the same, wild. (This happens while looking at a post that I’ve clicked on.)

  • git@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    It would be very nice if communities could set a default post language that user can override. Most communitieswould want their post in the same language anyway and scrolling trough the list to select a post language every time is pretty annoying especially on mobile

    Also my verification email went to spam/junk would be nice to have a disclaimer about that if it isn’t possible to fix atm