Lemmy.world improvements and issues - Lemmy.world
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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 ### 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 [https://lemmy.world/c/support].
  • sss@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The content of one instance can be very out of sync with another.

    Example, this thread in kbin is visible here in lemmy.world, and at the time of writing, not even a 3-day-old comment shows on lemmy.world.

    I have been subscribed to this community from beehaw in lemmy.world for those 3 days, which as far as I’m aware is the only pre-requisite to sync. But if syncing takes longer than 3 days…

    • Mythril@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Hmm, the original thread/community seems to be at beehaw.org, right? Since both of the threads you linked to are referring to the community “Programming@beehaw.org”.

      Beehaw is even down right now, so I am guessing that any syncing issues with other federated instances might be caused by a bottleneck at beehaw.org…?

      I still don’t fully understand how Lemmy works though, so I am not sure.

      • sss@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yes, you are right. But it had 3 days to sync. The oldest comment is 3 days old. Here is the same thread visible from another instance, much more up to date. I hadn’t noticed that beehaw.org is down though. That could explain it. I still find it odd that this instance would not have a single comment on this thread over these 3 days but… yeah I’ll take that explanation for the time being, I’ll check again when I notice beehaw is back up.

        Do you know how the fediverse works regarding this?:

        • If I comment now on that thread on any instance, say, on lemmy.world or on the other I just linked, does it need to first sync to beehaw before it propagates to other instances or would other instances get load my comment even while beehaw is down?

        If we take beehaw being currently down as a possible explanation for not seeing any of that thread here then I suppose first the comments need to reach beehaw.

        I may as well ask another question, any idea how I would find that thread easily on lemmy.world? I tried pasting the full URL in lemmy.world’s search but didn’t find it, I had to manually go into that community in lemmy.world’s instance and dig through the history to find it. In this case I assumed I would be able to find it by searching the full URL since the thread already is visible in lemmy.world, even if with no comments.

          • T156@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            edit: Ohh… but beehaw.org is blocking lemmy.world So what would that mean for lemmy.world? Would the normal behavior be that we can see the thread’s main post but not any comment?! I thought it was the other way around though, that they don’t get any content from lemmy.world but lemmy.world can still fetch theirs.

            No, the block goes both ways. Lemmy.world cannot see anything on beehaw.org, and beehaw.org cannot see anything on lemmy.world.

            Think of it in terms of one user blocking another on a regular social network.

            • CH3DD4R_G0B-L1N@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              We’re all still learning, but check your facts before posting this type of info so you don’t add to confusion about defederation.
              @sss had it right. We can still see posts from beehaw, just not comments. If we comment on the posts or make our own posts, they only show up on !gaming@beehaw.org and won’t go to beehaw. And syncing seems to be about 3 hours behind there, but that could just be the general sync issues right now, unclear.