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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

  • Posting big posts of over 2000 characters fails, the Post button will stay spinning
  • Top posts page gets a stream of new posts ? Websockets issue
  • You're suddenly in another post than you were before > Websockets issue

Enhancement requests

  • Can themes be added? > To be checked if this can be done without changing code.
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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It surprised me that the communities list can't be sorted by clicking on column headers; especially because the mouse cursor becomes a pointing-finger when hovering over them.

[–] cameron_@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

On the homepage lemmy.world, new posts keep appearing at the top even when not sorting by new. This causes annoying layout shift, especially when browsing all communities, not just local ones. (I use Firefox / Win 10)

[–] nova@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I have the same issue. Makes the front page unusable with the flood of posts pushing everything down. Firefox / Win 11

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[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In the comment listing, each comment first has an avatar, then the username, then the [β€”] button to collapse the comment thread. Observation: Because username length varies from comment to comment, the [β€”] button is in a different horizontal position. Consequence: As a user, it is tedious to collapse several comment threads because I have to search for that [β€”] button.

Request: put the [β€”] button as first item, to the left of the avatar and username.

[–] andobando@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like this about the reddit UI where you can click anywhere on the vertical bar to collapse them. Collapse should be easier than the tiny button imo

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[–] functor@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

New posts appear "live" at the top of the frontpage regardless of what sorting method is chosen. This disrupts the reading process and minimizes any expanded image view. Is there any way to disable this "live feed" behavior?

Also, the "sorting help" button points to a dead link.

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[–] Nerdlinger@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I scanned through the comments here and I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet, but I would love, love, love to have an option added to settings to open links in a new tab (or possibly windows if some people would prefer that). The current behavior is to open in the current tab, which I am so unaccustomed to I keep closing the tab when I’m done with it rather than hitting the back arrow.

It’s quite jarring to not open in a new tab these days, especially for external links.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Good idea. Suggestions can be submitted in their Github https://github.com/LemmyNet

[–] pinapelz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The upvote/downvote (or whatever you call it here) sometimes freaks out a bit.

[–] maj4short@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I'm trying to upvote this but it doesn't seem to stick...

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[–] DRx@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

An Improvement I would like to see:

When scrolling my front page, I would like to be able to click the thread picture to a) see the 'body of the post' prior to entering the thread and b) if it is a picture be able to 'drag to resize' prior to entering the thread... I know these would all take a while to do, but it would be what I would like most.

[–] notabotactually@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The hot sort appears to be frozen for the last 24 hrs. The top posts on all or local haven't changed in nearly a day. There appears to be a bug causing a deadlock in the database (see issue 3076 for more info). The only solution seems to be to restart the instance when that thread crashes.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes as a workaround I restart the lemmy container every hour.

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[–] sorenant@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have my viewing type set to "All" on my settings but when I go to the index page (lemmy.world), it's set to Local.

Not sure if it's an issue or just a symptom of lack of large communities yet but I also tend to see the same posts on the top every time ("If we want this to work out make content do not just lurk", "All the sad" and "important rulepost").

Edit: Also there's an issue when posting. I click "Post" and it gets stuck in the spinning icon despite my profile indicating my comment has been posted successfully.

Edit 2: Related to my second paragraph, I suggest changing the default sorting to Hot instead of Active. At least currently, Active keeps a handful of the same posts permanently on top, giving the impression of inactivity for newcomers used to Reddit. Hot will provide a more varied front page.

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[–] phil299@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I just quickly mention that I for one really appreciate the work done by @ruul to keep this instance working as well as it does , thank you.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

You're welcome

[–] Richie@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A big issue that I'm constantly having is that, I fully open a post and read it, and then all of a sudden the post has switched to an entirely new one. It has happened a few times now during my time typing this comment; here's a screenshot of it.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a websockets issue. Hopefully will be fixed in 0.18 (they'll remove websockets)

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[–] fubo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm noticing a weird UI issue that makes it sometimes look like a new comment is attached to the wrong post.

For instance, just now I posted a comment on this thread, then went away from my computer and came back a couple minutes later. My browser was now displaying content from this different post but with my new comment attached to it.

Refreshing makes it evident that the comment is actually on the right post, though.

This is all using the default UI on lemmy.world, from a current Chrome browser.

Anyone else seen this sort of thing?

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[–] DudePluto@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some communities aren't updating on lemmy.world

Specifically, I moderate /c/worldbuilding@lemmy.ml and I noticed that lemmy.world's side is not updating. No new posts from lemmy.ml's side, and their side shows 300+ subscribers while mine shows ~80

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[–] Spyd3r@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

When browsing in a fullscreen window the available themes only use about 25% of the horizontal screen space for content, and each post uses up a large amount of vertical space, with most of it being wasted space. Something more compact like old.reddit would be nice.

[–] Catto@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Uploaded images autorotate, and I couldn't find how to manually rotate it prior to postinf. I'm using web/android if it matters

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[–] althea_vestrid@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The rapid scrolling when viewing new or hot makes the site almost unusable. The issue for this is closed and the author says it has landed in main and will be available in 0.18. Do we have plans to upgrade? RC1 was released today. Thanks!

[–] jcb2016_@mastodon.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

@TragicNotCute @ruud Try the android app jeroba it should control the stream. I don't know what they have for iOS Hope they fix it soon

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[–] 0235@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I am very new to Lemmy.world. I have noticed though there is no icon displayed on firefox for the bookmark (but there is for Chrome / DuckDuckGo browser).

Edit 2023-07-02 - For me this appears to have been fixed :)

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[–] onigiri@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A couple times I’ve clicked a post and a completely different post opened. The latest one was a cat pic I was going to show my daughter and porn opened instead. I’m not subscribed to any porn communities and there weren’t any porn posts in the list on my homepage. This is a real problem. I went back and clicked the link and it worked as expected.

Also, as I was typing this comment, the main post I was replying to changed, but the comments stayed the same. Weird.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope all the weirdness is over when they remove websockets and replace it with http. That will be in 0.18 I'm sorry for the unfortunate situation...

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[–] Audalin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rarely the web version is laggy and things I'm not intending to click are clicked. Just now, a "Report Created" notification appeared after posting a comment - I'm sorry if something was actually reported, and I have no idea what that even was.

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[–] Interesting_Test_814@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I noticed upvotes are behaving weirdly sometimes, like the upvote count of a post will shuffle between random numbers like 55 then 735 then 345 then 56 then 902 then 736 then 4 then 57 then 346 then 251 then 58. (Yeah, I noticed some of these are counsecutive which makes me think we're somehow upvoting on different counts and it shows the most recently upvoted.) Also sometimes when I upvote a comment my upvote disappears and sometimes it reappears later... why ?

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[–] git@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It would be very nice if communities could set a default post language that user can override. Most communitieswould want their post in the same language anyway and scrolling trough the list to select a post language every time is pretty annoying especially on mobile

Also my verification email went to spam/junk would be nice to have a disclaimer about that if it isn't possible to fix atm

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Personally I think when clicking 'Post' it takes too long for it to be posted. I will see what I can do about this.

[–] ericjmorey@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also, there's no local saving of the data in the post submition, so if there's a server or connection error, you lose whatever you typed.

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[–] vomaufgang@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Up- and downvoting appears to be borked on this instance specifically. If I hit the buttons, they light up, my upvote is counted - and a split second later it disappears and the button greys out again.

If I reload the page sometimes the vote got counted in the background, sometimes it didn't.

This appears to affect other parts of the UI as well. Most of the time I expand an image, it expands for a split second, then the UI resets and the image is small again.

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Hmm, there are a lot of issues with Websockets, which Lemmy uses. I'm waiting for 0.18 to come out which replaces Websockets, so a lot of these issues should be gone...

[–] Natejka7273@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would love to see 2-factor authentication (app-based) implemented at some point. Not a pressing issue right now, but once everything stabilizes I think it would be a valuable security feature long-term.

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would love the ability to set a time for a post to publish. I've been posting a lot of news articles to /c/texas and I don't want users to feel like its spamming. If I could set a publish time that would be awesome

[–] ruud@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That sounds like a good enhancement request for https://github.com/LemmyNet

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[–] c2h6@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Issue with lemmy in general: there's no error message when your username is taken, or password doesn't meet the requirements. I had to figure out by trial and error why my application didn't go through

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