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.

  • Marko 😆@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

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      1 year ago

      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.

      • Marko 😆@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

    • TeaHands@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      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