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.

  • Antik 👾English
    2•1 year ago

    Could be a language setting. Edit your profile and select all languages, see if that helps?

    • silly goose meekahEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Right, I forgot about that feature. I have “Undetermined” as my language, but I also remember that I could set the language of the post. Maybe I accidentally set something there

      edit: tried a few different things but I don’t think it’s the language. I set the language of the post to english, and my own language to english, and it wouldn’t show up. I’d also like to note it wasn’t possible for me to select all languages. well, I could select them, but all of them were deselected after pressing the save button.

      edit 2: actually, it looks like I can select and save several languages, but only if I don’t use ctrl+A to select them all. Also, it seems I can’t actually save the changed language of the post

      edit 3: it seems to me that I can save every language but one. If I try to save all languages, all get unselected, but it works if it is all languages minus one. And I still can’t see the post properly in the community…

      • Antik 👾English
        2•1 year ago

        Ah I see you deleted it. I can not see any real issue with the post.

        • silly goose meekahEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          I deleted the post? That must have happened on accident, but that explains everything lmao

          edit: ah, a little trashcan icon. I should have noticed that sooner… thanks.

          edit: that was not it either… super weird.