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.

Remember: this instance was only started June 1st so a lot of troubleshooting and tweaking to be done.

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

Other issues

  • Federation not always working; Apparently not everything gets synced all the time. This needs troubleshooting.
  • “404: FetchError: invalid json response body at http://lemmy:8536/api/v3/site” This sometimes happens when the Lemmy app container is very busy. Needs troubleshooting

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.

  • @nameisnotimportantEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Former reddit user making the switch the best I can.

    • Found this guide and made an account on Lemmy.world
    • went on my merry way and found several communities here and there
    • tried to install the mobile client Jerboa and got blocked because the server is older than the app version — and for some reason the former versions crash on my phone

    ➡ am I right to assume that the end user risks losing its app mobile access everytime there’s a update from the app and / or the server?

    • in the end I ended up downloading Thunder which allowed me to login to lemmy.world without version issues
    • RuudOPMAEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Well, 2 strange things:

      • New jerboa version requires server version 0.18, which isn’t released yet
      • Jerboa dev is same as Lemmy dev so he probably should align releases better ;-)
      • @witEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Dessalines has mentioned somewhere that lemmy 0.18 is scheduled to be released today. He has released the latest version of Jerboa because lemmy.ml is already running 0.18… But ya, things could have been done more smoothly. Hopefully 0.18 doesn’t lag too far behind.

      • @nameisnotimportantEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        I see that things still need to settle down…

        EDIT: Funnily enough, the lemmy.ml instance seems to be one of the only running on 0.18