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.
  • functor@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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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      1 year ago

      This is such a big issue for me I currently don’t really want to use Lemmy.

  • PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world
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    In the comment listing, each comment first has an avatar, then the username, then the [—] button to collapse the comment thread. Observation: Because username length varies from comment to comment, the [—] 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 [—] button.

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

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      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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        Btw this also works on Jerboa, the Android app for Lemmy. You can basically tap anywhere in the message and it collapses.

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    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.

  • fubo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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.

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    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.

  • git@lemmy.world
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    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

  • notabotactually@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • DRx@lemmy.world
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    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.

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    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.

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      There’s a bug right now that causes the hot sort to stop updating. A partial fix will be coming out with the next update. The “hot score” decay is actually very aggressive on Lemmy, so normally posts should fall down the ranking very quickly.

  • Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world
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    Federation not always working; Apparently not everything gets synced all the time. This needs troubleshooting.

    I thought I was suffering from this, but then I added English to my profile languages, and suddenly many posts on other instances that I could not see before were now visible.

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    1 year ago

    Might be more of a question than a “known issue” or “request” but, do you want individual users to be able to see the modlog for the entire Lemmy.world instance? For instance I can see not only who has been added/removed as a moderator, but what posts/comments have been removed/restored.

    But also, thank you for running this, and also for having posts like this up which greatly help people like me know you’re working on stuff.

    • Ruud@lemmy.worldOPM
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      That’s a choice the devs made, they want to be open about the moderation so it’s visible to all.

  • SgtAStrawberry@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Issue: Sometimes, when scrolling or reading, the screen jumps up. Making it very difficult to read comments.

    Improvement: Open post by clicking on the text, not just title and comment button, makes it easier on phones.

    And collapseing comment chains, which makes it easier to scroll and read posts with a lot of comments, especially if some comment chains are not relevant to you.

  • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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    1 year ago

    I think lemmy.world need to up the “Federation worker count” under the server settings. The more data that needs to be federated, the higher this number should be.