On the instance I’m using, my comments and posts have disappeared. It is ok?
I had a few helpful comments here that I saved, but it’s all gone.
Having got used to the stability in Mastodon I was surprised by such things in Lemmy as:
Unable to log into your account through the app after an update on the server.
Unable to log into your account through the app if your instance version is out of date.
Just because you’ve created a post or written a comment doesn’t mean other Lemmy users will see it.
I have to constantly check to see if my messages are visible on other instances.
You also need to have many sub-accounts on different instances in case some of the primary instances are unavailable.
I have wildly more patience for Lemmy’s glitches than I do for Reddit’s. Lemmy’s devs are working on a shoestring budget with just a few people trying to prop up a whole social network. The project is still pretty early in its life cycle.
A lot of the mentioned issues are caused by instances having different versions.
This could be fixed with API versioning. As in you support the last couple versions of the API rather than only the new one.
I believe this most recent update to v0.19 was somewhat unique in the regard of login incompatibility across versions, as major breaking changes to authentication itself were the focus of it.
Exactly. Those people are paid salaries. They have teams working on things. When something is allowed to go wrong, someone either didn’t do the job they’re paid for, or they’re incompetent/apathetic. They’re using proven software that’s been around a while.
When there’s a problem with a Lemmy instance, then maybe the one person responsible was at the job that actually pays their rent. They’re working with beta software that’s full of “surprises”.
I’ve not seen a single one of those glitches since I’ve been an active user.
Nope, even a buggy, glitchy Lemmy is a head and shoulders better experience than any shitty corpo social media.
I think many of us feel that way. Just getting away from that shit is worth a lot of smaller glitches here on Lemmy. :)
a little, but I’m dealing with it. 18 or so years ago, when reddit was new, it had a lot of bugs, was unstable, and would often go down for upgrades and maintenance.
although lemmy has been around for a few years, it hasn’t really been run or even tested as a serious platform until last summer when tens of thousands of new users flocked to it suddenly from reddit and both a bunch of new instances popped up and a bunch of new and rapid software releases brought a bunch of new features to handle the sudden growth. some growing pains are to be expected and, frankly, it’s all gone far more smoothly than I expected it would.
18 Years ago I was more patient with things like that. Today my patience is only for shit that matters.
aaaaand why don’t you think that taking the time to work out the bugs on this platform matters?
you do realize that this - all of this here that we’re participating in - is part of a big experiment run purely on volunteer work by a community-driven effort, and is entirely funded thereby. there’s no corporate effort at play here and no megabucks to bankroll it. that’s kinda the point of it all. so, if you’re dissatisfied with that state of things or by what you perceive as a lack of progress, I suggest you roll up your sleeves and dig in, contribute your time and effort to the development, or find some other way to contribute to the project and/or community in furtherance of its goals.
whining here about those things will get you precisely nowhere— especially when you either imply or outright declare that any of this doesn’t matter— or the idea that you’re entitled to something for nothing.
My family matters. My work matters. My pleasure activities matter. Whether or not some rando on the Internet is able to read my comment really doesn’t matter.
nobody here doubts that you’re selfish and self-centered with no care for anyone but yourself.
Whether or not some rando on the Internet is able to read my comment really doesn’t matter.
then why are you here trying so hard?
You’re calling me selfish for caring about my family, work, and real life things instead of the Internet? That’s just sad man.
I took one passing look at how the thing is built, found out it’s “basically all websockets for some reason”, and stopped expecting it to work properly. Whenever it breaks I think “this is why you don’t use websockets when you can just send a goddamn server side rendered web page or make an AJAX POST request” and I feel vindicated instead of annoyed.
They phased out websockets a while back.
Maybe that’s when I mostly stopped getting the wrong page of stuff.
Seems super stable to me, might be the client smoothing it out.
Yea I haven’t noticed much
Boost for Lemmy & web app
The 0.19 update was special since it modified the auth stuff. But a quick log out and in was all I needed.
The comments not appearing on other instances is a fair point, but I imagine something similar happens on Mastodon as well
The only major annoyance I’ve encountered so far was the federation issues with 0.19. My instance recently upgraded and broke federation with instances like .world, so I’ve been shouting into a void with my comments on some instances.
We had that at Lemmy.today too, but the instance admin fixed it just now. Go read their announcements communitity what they did.
Thanks! I’ll link it to my instance’s support community.
Yeah I hope it fixes other instances as well, would be cool. The more instances the better. :)
I’ve made the assessment that the growing pains are worth weathering, because Lemmy as a platform and wider community gives me much more joy than any big corpo platform I’ve ever tried.
I’m willing to put up with Lemmy’s glitches. The vast majority of admins, mods, and developers are volunteers doing what they do (largely for free) simply because they think it’s worth doing. If it were a product I paid for I would not be near as chill about it.
Lemmy was a fairly young project when everyone started piling in from Reddit. If the glitches you’re experiencing bother you that badly, perhaps consider contributing to the project, the network or your homeserver. Open source projects work best when everyone contributes what they can, when they can and as they can.
I’m self-hosting and it has been ridiculously smooth coupled with Voyager as my mobile app. Now I understand that a single user instance is a lot easier to handle than a multi-user one so I naturally don’t have any experience or opinion on how Lemmy instances scale with users in terms of stability.
Right now, another bug has manifested itself. Your message is shown in the “Replies” tab in Jerboa’s inbox, but it is not visible in the comments of the message thread.
For a few months, I couldn’t log into this instance through apps.
Yesterday, the lemmy.today instance stopped sending posts and messages to the Lemmy network. I only found out about it when I logged in through another instance in asklemmy and saw that my post wasn’t in the community.This happened to me when my language settings weren’t set. You can’t even access them in jerboa, log in with a browser and check if English is selected besides default. And whatever else you wish to see.
You also need to make sure undetermined is checked
Ya sometimes my posts magically are deleted or hidden or pictures don’t upload. But still a great experience for me due to the wholesomeness.
Was reading comments through the RaccoonForLemmy app and your comment looked like this:
ScreenshotAfter a while, the app froze and closed by itself. However, after I reopened the app everything looked normal.
That’s a known bug which has been partially solved in the latest development build, have a look here. There were issues with markdown rendering when there were both text and images.
tbf reddit also allows that with markdown
It does? I was on there since digg and never seen that.
people don’t use it for some reason ¯_(ツ)_/¯
all third party clients display markdown images fully inline, all official clients either require a click or show a small thumbnail
Not really, the benefits outweigh the consequences.
No. This is incredibly complex software run by people with little or no budget. I’m grateful that it exists at all.
I am not annoyed by Lemmy’s constant glitches. It adds to the charm of the place.
Lemmy is a volunteer effort. You want everything to run corporate-smooth, that’s ‘X’ and TikTok and Reddit.
Looking at you lemm.ee
No reply from instance.