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.
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.
EDIT: turns out I kept entering the wrong password entire time. 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
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.
I managed to fix the problem; I kept entering wrong password. 🤦♂️ 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.
Still not working for me. On iOS with Mozilla but works well with Safari.
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
Did you assign e-mail address to your account? Are you using it for login or the username?
I did, but logged in with username iirc
Then something must be wrong with my account. I tried using Wi-Fi and mobile data, still nothing.