Lemmy instance servers are all struggling to handle the massive influx of traffic and new users

Unfortunately, this is resulting in long load times, lagging in user actions, and failed data interactions. As a result, you may experience login issues. some comments may get lost, some votes may not get registered, and you may see inconsistent/inaccurate comment/vote counts among some other strange issues.

This is a Lemmy issue, not one with Mlem. Hopefully, as server capacity is increased across instances, these extraneous errors will subside. Until then, just know that they’re not unusual during times of high traffic and server stress. You can hop on over to our Matrix Space to chat with the fast-growing Mlem community, or you can check out our project on GiHub! (links below)

Cheers!

– The Mlem Team

  • @chiisanaEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Love that there’s an app to get up and running so quickly. Thank you. A couple questions/feedbacks if I may:

    1. I’m noticing some janky/sticky/bouncy behaviour. I tend to observe this in longer posts with more comments in the thread coming in via incremental loading. Some messages tends to stick and pop back after I scroll some distance. Is this artifact of Lemmy server rather than mLem client?

    2. I mentioned else where that aggregation of communities would be very useful. Where us refugees came from had the concept of “multi” and one could custom tailor community_A+community_B+community_C to group similar concepts together. With the decentralized nature, would it be possible to add similar setup, as well as a generic “!community@“ feed that pulls and aggregates the feed from all of my subscribed instances if “!community”? A slick UI to manage this in mLem will make it a killer feature that other apps doesn’t have, thus drive adoption :)

    3. Some people get really excited and write huge walls of text, which results in a lot of scrolling in feeds. It would be nice to have a compact view on the feed where it just shows the title and first few lines of text, and the tapping into the thread to see the full message thread. This would make scrolling through larger quantities of posts in feed faster and easier.

    4. Is it possible to detect if the destination of a link is a Lemmy instance/post/comment, and render that in the app instead of bouncing the user to an in app safari view? Kind of defeats the purpose of using an app if we end up just seeing the instance’s web view anyway.

    Thanks again for getting an app up and running for everyone!